* [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.
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David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://www.dme.org
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