On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:49:19PM -0500, James wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:36:46AM -0800, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > [ snip ] > > > > If I understand correctly, you want the kernel to queue packets until > > layer 2 address resolution is complete. Right now we don't do this. If > > there is no route to a destination, packets will be dropped. > > The KAME ipv6 code does this for v6 neighbor discovery (which is not > arp yes..). Martin, nd6_output() in netinet6/nd6.c should be helpful > if you want to look. RFC requires routers to queue packets up during > layer 2 resolution process (which is why in IPv6 when destination > host is down you see !A with huge latency -- i.e. 3400ms due to > queueing by the router[1]).
Err my bad. I meant 'latest packet' (like in arp resolution) -J -- James Jun TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead Boston IPv4/IPv6 Web Hosting, Colocation and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network design/consulting & configuration services cell: 1(978)-394-2867 web: http://www.towardex.com , noc: www.twdx.net _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
