From bff528578fc3c4a14227b052a313109b5ffb73da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen hemminger Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:08:20 +0000 Subject: gre: fix spelling in comments The original spelling and bad word choice makes these comments hard to read. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_gre.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 6b3ca5ba4450..38673d2860e2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ it is infeasible task. The most general solutions would be to keep skb->encapsulation counter (sort of local ttl), and silently drop packet when it expires. It is a good - solution, but it supposes maintaing new variable in ALL + solution, but it supposes maintaining new variable in ALL skb, even if no tunneling is used. Current solution: xmit_recursion breaks dead loops. This is a percpu @@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ One of them is to parse packet trying to detect inner encapsulation made by our node. It is difficult or even impossible, especially, - taking into account fragmentation. TO be short, tt is not solution at all. + taking into account fragmentation. TO be short, ttl is not solution at all. Current solution: The solution was UNEXPECTEDLY SIMPLE. We force DF flag on tunnels with preconfigured hop limit, that is ALL. :-) Well, it does not remove the problem completely, but exponential growth of network traffic is changed to linear (branches, that exceed pmtu are pruned) and tunnel mtu - fastly degrades to value <68, where looping stops. + rapidly degrades to value <68, where looping stops. Yes, it is not good if there exists a router in the loop, which does not force DF, even when encapsulating packets have DF set. But it is not our problem! Nobody could accuse us, we made @@ -457,8 +457,8 @@ static void ipgre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info) GRE tunnels with enabled checksum. Tell them "thank you". Well, I wonder, rfc1812 was written by Cisco employee, - what the hell these idiots break standrads established - by themself??? + what the hell these idiots break standards established + by themselves??? */ const struct iphdr *iph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data; -- cgit v1.2.3