if_tap unaligned access problem

Sten Spans sten at blinkenlights.nl
Fri Apr 29 14:38:12 PDT 2005


On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> [...]
>
>> I could try to port the changes netbsd made using m_copyup and
>> send you the resulting patchfile. IPv4 has already been serviced by
>> John-Mark Gurney in perforce. 
>
> having these changes in the tree is a good thing, but it will require more 
> testing. maybe for now we could get away with simpler changes?

Well these changes should only be enabled for sparc & alpha,
which greatly limits the impact. We could even make it a
kernel option and default to off.

But I'll try playing with if_tap first though.

-- 
Sten Spans

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