* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-14 03:52:22] > David Edmondson wrote: >> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-10 13:33:54] >>> It might be nice if IP were a little more graceful in handling ref'd >>> dblks, but that probably would be a lot more complicated. >> >> I'd be very happy if IP stopped modifying inbound IP headers in-place >> (it forced some awkwardness in the Xen drivers). > > What type of change does IP do that causes Xen problems?
It byte-swaps fields in the headers. Given that the preference of the guest domain is to provide a read-only mapping to pages it loans to the IO domain, any attempt to modify packets is problematic. > Also, are you saying that NAT causes Xen problems? See above. dme. -- David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://www.dme.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
