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> complex tricks with the existing network stack To retain the essence of how weave operates, this would likely not just be complex but impossible, short of ke
by weavenetwork 12y ago
> complex tricks with the existing network stack
To retain the essence of how weave operates, this would likely not just be complex but impossible, short of kernel hackery.
> you would really only need to do processing at the beginning of a connection and for some ARP request
Weave needs to look at every Ethernet packet. Well, the headers at least. It's a virtual Ethernet switch. It doesn't even really know about IP, let alone TCP streams. See https://github.com/zettio/weave#how-does-it-work https://github.com/zettio/weave#how-does-it-work