Re: bridge-netfilter patch

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:35:28 -0700 (PDT)


From: Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:05:40 +0200

On Friday 13 September 2002 20:22, David S. Miller wrote:
> First explain to me why the copy is needed for.

memcpy(skb2->data - 16, skb->data - 16, 16);

This is for purely bridged packets.

Why is it being added, therefore, to ip_queue_xmit() which is only
ever invoked by TCP output processing?

If the patch adds the call somewhere else, please correct me, but
I specifically remember it being added to ip_queue_xmit() which is
why I barfed when seeing it :-)

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