Greetings. On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:17:55 +0200 Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: > Chris Down dixit: > > >I don't even know what to say to this... > > Must be the full moon. First 20h “liking” kdbus, now this…
It shouldn’t be using »dbus« because dbus is this [0]. But yes, with the local addresses all of the IP filtering logic will be reimplemented, just for the kernel. Just take the 127.0.0.0/8 network and add a default flag for not allowing any packet forwarding. If communication between two hosts in that network happen the kernel could use a special case to do more efficient data copying. Even systems not supporting the local special case could run services by just having TCP/IP implemented and a loopback device. All the logic already created for IP will be available. And it will teach people IP routing and filtering. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann [0] http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html
