Messages in this thread | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: IP Alias (Sun Solaris <-> Linux) | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:18:42 +0400 (MSK DST) |
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Hello!
> Half-year (or it was year?) ago Linus said that the whole RARP and may be
RARP is corpse. It is in kernel only because nobody took care of "rm"ing it. User space implementation also may be found in ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/
> ARP thing does not really belond to kernel and can be easily implemented in > userspace but since it's not a big beast and kernel solution is already here > it's not of any priority...
ARP in user space is full non-sense sort of CPU cache stored on disk 8) Kernel side of ARP caches information for fast reference and consists of machine holding this cache in sync with external databases, not more.
Alexey
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