On 10/27/08 09:21, Kacheong Poon wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
>
>> 10 Packet Interception
>> Which packet filtering hook will the ilb code be introducing?
>
>
> No, the current design does not introduce any PF hook
> (assuming you are referring to PSARC 2005/33).

Why not?
Were you planning on introducing some new API for 3rd party
consumers to provide their own load balancing s/w in the kernel?


>> Dropping fragmented packets is not acceptable. Talk to
>> the IPsec guys for some tips on mitigating this problem.
>> This will come back to bite us if it is implemented like
>> this.
>
>
> We are aware of several ways to handle this.  But we
> opt to defer this.  In practice, this should only affect
> UDP traffic.  And not supporting fragment should not
> exclude the use of ILB for all UDP apps.  So we leave
> this as an RFE for the next phase of the project.

Correction: in theory this should only impact UDP traffic,
in practice it affects UDP *and* TCP traffic.

Darren

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