On Tuesday, November 06, 2012 04:25:27 Sven Eckelmann wrote: > All packet headers in front of an ethernet header have to be completely > divisible by 2 but not by 4 to make the payload after the ethernet header > again 4 bytes boundary aligned. > > A packing of 2 is necessary to avoid extra padding at the end of the struct > caused by a structure member which is larger than two bytes. Otherwise the > structure would not fulfill the previously mentioned rule to avoid the > misalignment of the payload after the ethernet header. It may also lead to > leakage of information when the padding it not initialized before sending. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> > --- > Because we had protests against the approach of splitting the 32 bit > seqno... here is a different approach. Now get your dices to find out what > David may will like. > > packet.h | 16 +++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied in revision 52f79c4. Thanks, Marek
