netdev - Re: [PATCH] act_mirred: don't go back.

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Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:03:52 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] act_mirred: don't go back.

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 16:44 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:

> The current kernel and iproute2 support ingress in another way, that
> is attaching the filter to the corresponding ingress qdisc. refter to
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:IFB . 

that looks like something i wrote ;->

> The loops is avoided in
> netif_receive_skb() and with TTL mechanism. 
> Do you have more
> documentation or examples about socket redirect? Sorry, I don't know
> what it is used to do. Is it sth. like ipt_REDIRECT?

I open a socket and I install a filter to mirror or redirect to this
socket. It is possible to do it today if you use tun device; thats
why i have never been motivated to do it.

cheers,
jamal

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