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Applying the inet6 ND state engine to inet4
One of the really nice things about INET6 is Neighbour Discovery. Not really the
on-wire protocol itself, but the state engine it has. The equivalent in ARP is
not quite so nice.
I think it would be a good win to split the ND state engine out of netinet6 and
into net to make it protocol agnostic (which it already is to some extent thanks
the the LLE work done prior).
Why is this a good win? Well, the ARP state relies on the net.inet.arp.keep
timer of 20 minutes where it thinks that once resolved the host *will* be up for
20 minutes. ND on the other hand sets short timers based on the flow of data so
we can readily detect hosts becoming unreachable a lot faster.
Thoughts?
Roy
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