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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:14:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: this code does not get called in dev.c so do we need it?
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I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but why arn't there any in-tree
drivers with support for this?  Is it too ugly to merge?
	Nick

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> 
> Fast routing, although not implemented in any in-tree drivers,
> does get used by some people who have hacked up drivers to support
> this.
> 
> It allows IPv4 routing to occur right at the level of the device
> driver, it directly pushes an input packet to the output routine
> of the destination device all without leaving the driver.
> 
> This code is used.
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