Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:28:52 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:55 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Sowmini, > > Neat. Though, in my case, I'm not actually just prepending a header. > I'm doing some more substantial transformations of a packet. And this > needs to work with v4 too. So I'm not sure implementing a v6 spec will > help with things. I need to identify the right mechanism inside the > kernel to assist with this, like, say, a member in sk_buff.
There is very little chance we'll accept a new member in sk_buff, unless proven needed.
Yes, it is very tempting and dozen of programmers already tried.
You'll have to demonstrate full understanding of the stack and why other solutions do not work.
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