netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [IPSEC]: Reinject v6 packet on input instead of calling netfilter

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Message-Id: <1196373956.5699.2.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:05:56 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [IPSEC]: Reinject v6 packet on input
	instead	of	calling netfilter

On Thu, 2007-29-11 at 22:21 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> 
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2007/10/16/88
> > I wouldnt mind just ipv4 going in - but that would be lacking
> > consistency. Is there anything that can be done to get the extension
> > headers to be processed only once?
> >   
> 
> I would prefer to keep things consistent between IPv4 and IPv6. 

Makes sense.

> Not sure if anything could be done, perhaps we could keep the necessary
> parts of the IP6CB and skip parsing up to the ESP nexthdr.

I will compute in the background and talk to Yoshfuji (hopefully will
bump into him next week;->). Herbert, if you have any clever ideas
please shoot.

cheers,
jamal

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