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Re: kern/52074: -current npf map directive broken
Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> Hi Roy !
>
> Would be possible, but I think we are not gaining any benefit from the
> additional look-up.
> Before the packet filter we see the originating interface. That is the
> one for which we need to count the bytes sent.
> After the packet filter we see either no change most of the time, some
> other local interface or nothing.
> So I would prefer just to look the the originating interface.
>
> There is one subtle case for not being able to find the correct local
> interface from the source address.
> In BSD multiple interfaces can have the same IP address. In this
> situation we cannot correctly determine
> the correct interface from the source address alone for bytes-sent
> accounting.
> As this didn't work properly up to now we are not making things worse
> with respect to bytes-sent accounting.
>
AFAIK this fixed in -current, right?
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Mindaugas
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