Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:16:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/10] s390: network driver. |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Paul Jakma wrote:
> non-raw/header-included sockets, eg BGP tcp sockets, a user like > GNU Zebra / Quagga would much prefer packets to be dropped.
Ur... not for TCP.. obviously.
Anyway, is there any advice on how applications that use a single socket for raw/udp should deal with this new behaviour? All of the link-orientated routing protocol daemons in Quagga/GNU Zebra are going to break on Linux with this new behaviour.
Should such applications be changed to open a seperate socket per interface? Or could we have a SO_DROP_DONT_QUEUE sockopt to allow a privileged application to retain the previous behaviour, or some way to flush the queue for a socket?
Using a socket per interface wont address problem of sending quite stale packets when a link comes back after a long time down, AUI. (not a huge problem - but not nice).
Jeff???
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