Subject: Re: Patch for Fast-IPsec over loopback
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/22/2003 20:31:30
On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 06:46 PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
wrote:
> because L2 driver behavior is different, ip_output() needs to behave
> differently. yes, ip_output() should remove ipsec tags used in L3
> logic, and then add ipsec-hardware tags to tell L2 to do special
> stuff.
No, I don't like that idea. All that extra allocating/freeing of the
L2-specific IPsec tags is added expense. Better for the IPsec tags to
be generic enough so as to be useful all over.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>