On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:02:36PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
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> If I recall the IPIP handling is different from KAME because there is 
> support for IPIP encapsulation independent of the IPsec protocols while 
> KAME only handles IPIP as part of the ESP tunnel configuration.  As to 
> overhead, in practice, at least back in 4.x where this work was 
> originally done, the netisr dispatch was effectively shortcircuited 
> because the dispatch was done from the netisr thread so the net cost was 
> a enqueue+dequeue of the packet.  I'm not sure about extraneous trips 
> through ip_input or not stripping headers; this stuff used to work right 
> but I've not looked at the code in years.

There IS some code to remove the IPIP header, but it doesn't work.

I just reported pr kern/94273 with a patch which solves it.


Yvan.

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