netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: add IPv4 routing FIB support for swdev

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Message-ID: <1420576016.15181.21.camel@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:26:56 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	john fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: add IPv4 routing FIB support for swdev

On Di, 2015-01-06 at 20:59 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> Sorry, I haven't fully understood this. Does rocker first do a L3
> routing table lookup and *after* that does decide which nexthop to chose
> based on preferences in the action-set found at the leaf? My gut tells
> me that we cannot do a semantically equivalent to ip rules then, we
> would have to use ACLs then. Hmm...

Does rocker drop the packet if no match is found or can it pass the
packet onto the slowpath to the kernel?


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