resolving routes externally

[James]

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

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