Re: Add PGM protocol support to the IP stack

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Mar 19 2010 - 18:26:54 EST


On 03/19/2010 02:53 PM, David Miller wrote:
> But I also don't consider what openpbm has to do right now to
> be all that much of a restriction. You need privileges to
> add the protocol to the kernel, you need privileges to run
> the userspace variant, there is no real difference.

The real difference is if multiplex is needed between multiple
unprivileged users.

-hpa
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