Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: David Young <dyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/05/2007 10:01:11
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:28:14AM +0000, David Young wrote:
>
> Module Name: src
> Committed By: dyoung
> Date: Fri Oct 5 03:28:14 UTC 2007
>
> Modified Files:
> src/distrib/sets/lists/comp: mi
> src/sys/net: if_gre.c if_gre.h
> src/sys/netinet: Makefile in_proto.c
> Removed Files:
> src/sys/netinet: ip_gre.c ip_gre.h
>
> Log Message:
> Work in progress: use a raw socket for GRE in IP encapsulation
> instead of adding/subtracting our own IPv4 header.
>
> There are many benefits: gre(4) needn't grok the outer encapsulation
> header any longer, so this simplifies the gre(4) code. The IP
> stack needn't grok GRE, so it is simplified, too.
How did the IP stack need to grok GRE? I see that the IP stack itself was
not touched by this commit.
Pavel