Subject: Re: kern/34164: unconnected ippp? interfaces hang onto pakets to be send
To: None <martin@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/08/2006 21:35:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/34164; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/34164: unconnected ippp? interfaces hang onto pakets to be send
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:30:59 +0200
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:25:29PM +0200, Frank Kardel wrote:
> how about queueing only when the first paket triggered a connection
> establishment
> and drop pakets while not connected/establishing the connection if that
> can be determined.
Yes, that would be equivalent, but I think the event flow in this case is
asynchronous, so we won't know this inside the kernel imediately.
Martin