On Sat, 2006-01-04 at 14:29 +0200, Stefan Rompf wrote: > Am Samstag 01 April 2006 12:27 schrieb David S. Miller:
> > > > 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. > No stefan - check arpd. Infact if you really want to scale ARP to many many entries, you do it in user space. This has been proven more than once in the past: Thats the main reason the current daemons exist. It is a kernel config, so it doesnt totaly take it out; however, given that you scale because you are in user space, provides good a reason to take it out. cheers, jamal - 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
