Issues for 2008/055

[James Carlson]

Nicolas Droux writes:
> > If we can agree that such work is indeed in the realm of a future
> > project, then I'd suggest including advice to that effect to the
> > project's management in the opinion for this case.
> 
> I agree with that approach. For the short term we will look into  
> providing a mechanism that will allow subsystems like bridging and  
> layer-2 filtering to intercept packets without requiring the addition  
> of checks specific to these subsystems in the common mac TX and RX  
> data-paths.

Thanks; yes, that sounds like the right way forward to me.

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