Re: Warning on enabling ip6 protochain 6

[Darren Reed <darren.reed () oracle com>]

On  5/08/11 01:46 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
> ...
> That could, in theory, be fixed - for example, BSD/OS's BPF interpreter had an instruction that would do IPv6 extension 
> header parsing
>    

How much interest is there in that?
And what would the functional requirements be?

I've written a prototype BPF instruction that is a "search for header X" 
that seems to work. This takes the loop out of BPF and puts it into the 
driver, which has is a positive for both performance and validation.

Darren

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