Re: Netgraph, meta and socket PF_NG

From: Vincent Jardin (vjardin_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 07/24/03

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    To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:52:31 +0200

    Le Jeudi 24 Juillet 2003 20:26, Julian Elischer a écrit :
    > you are correct
    >
    > My plan was to use the metadata part of recvmesg()
    > to transfer metadata but never implemented it and it has not been
    > needed.
    > I suggest that you write a very simple node (start with ng_sample.c)
    > that converts metadata to a 'header' prepends it to the data
    > and then pass that up.

    I though about it, however I would like to avoid this case that is not enough
    generic.

    > Alternatively you could look at implementing the recvmesg()
    > metadata transfer.

    However I am not a Unix socket expert ;-( I'll look how it can be done.

    Thanks,
      Vincent
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