Am Samstag 01 April 2006 12:27 schrieb David S. Miller: > > Neighbor address resolution is such a basic networking feature that > > it should not depend on a running userspace daemon to function > > properly. > > Routing is a pretty basic network feature, yet userspace manages it > and the kernel just does the switching.
That's comparing apples with pies. For the average machine, userspace sets up routing once, afterwards the kernel can do basic IPv4 communication without further help. ARP in difference requires regular time critical activity to keep a system reachable within one broadcast domain. Comparable to putting ARP resolution to userspace would be moving anything beyond the very basic routing cache out of the kernel. Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
