Re: Warning on enabling ip6 protochain 6

[ramkumar.paranandi () gmail com]

How much percentage of traffic in real world  scenarios would these kind (ipv6 chain)of packets consist?


Thanks,
./ram

On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2011, at 6:22 PM, ramkumar.paranandi () gmail com wrote:
>
> > Can we expect any packet drop by the kernel due to this warning?
>
> If a lot of the traffic on your network isn't TCP, so that a lot of traffic would've been discarded by the filter if 
> it could've been run in the kernel, more traffic might be dropped than if the kernel could have done the filtering.
>
> > If so, what kind of packets would kernel drop?
>
> Packets that arrive when the buffer for the PF_PACKET socket is full.  That could be *any* kind of traffic, whether 
> it's TCP or not.
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