netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	victor@...iniac.net
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.

From: Victor Julien <victor@...iniac.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:48:07 +0200

> On 07/05/2011 10:02 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> Would you prefer to receive the frags individually?
> 
> Ideally what we receive is the same as on the wire, but I think your
> solution would be fine.
> 
> In addition to the reassembled packet, having an option to receive the
> individual frags as well would be of use. Suricata (and Snort as well)
> has it's own defrag code that does anomaly detection. I can see a use
> case where just for that anomaly detection we'd still want to see the
> frags. In that case it wouldn't be a problem that they would all go to
> fanout 0.

Ok, I'm about to post a new set of patches that add the pre-defragmentation
support.
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