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SubjectRe: [patch 4/10] s390: network driver.
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???

regards,
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