Re: Applying the inet6 ND state engine to inet4

[cue%server.cornerstoneservice.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Aug 26,  7:38pm, Roy Marples wrote:
} On 19/08/2020 19:05, Roy Marples wrote:
} > On 19/08/2020 15:04, Roy Marples wrote:
} >> $ obj.amd64/arp -an
} >> ? (10.73.1.2) at 40:8d:5c:f4:71:34 on re0 1s D
} >> ? (10.73.1.1) at 04:18:d6:f0:02:cc on re0 2s R
} >> ? (10.73.1.230) at (incomplete) on re0 6s I
} >> ? (10.73.1.71) at f8:ad:cb:18:5a:88 on re0 23h56m28s S
} >> ? (10.73.1.30) at b4:2e:99:e0:33:f4 on re0 28s R
} >> $
} >>
} >> Patch here: https://www.netbsd.org/~roy/netbsd-nd.diff
} > 
} > If anyone's actually testing this, I updated the patch to fix some 
} > timing issues and a few other nits. Aside from deciding what to do about 
} > the timing knobs (and thus man page updates) it should be good to go now.
} 
} I've yet to update the patch to my latest, but I have sysctl knobs to 
} mirror ndp settings, but globally rather than per iface.
} 
} That brings me to an intereting question.
} Do we want to adjust ndp(8) to affect the timing for ARP as well so they 
} are the same - which has the side effect of an IPv6 router adjusting 

     IPv6 and IPv4 are different protocols.  Under no circumstances
should an IPv6 router affect anything to do with IPv4.

}-- End of excerpt from Roy Marples