Re: Import nd6_output_ifp routing function from FreeBSD

[Emmanuel Nyarko <emmankoko519%gmail.com@localhost>]

Emmanuel

> On 24 Jun 2025, at 4:08 PM, Edgar Fu� <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> What IPF does (external/bsd/ipf/netinet/ip_fil_netbsd.c) is:
> 
> # if __NetBSD_Version__ >= 499001100
>            error = ip6_if_output(ifp, ifp, m0, satocsin6(dst), rt);
> # else
>            error = nd6_output(ifp, ifp, m0, dst6, rt);
> # endif

Thank you very much for this. I noted same in pf this morning. So I can use ip6_if_output for it. 
> 
> 
> I also stumbled across a comment in netinet6/nd6.c which needs to be adjusted:
> 
>    /*
>     * XXX: since nd6_output() below will cause
>     * state tansition to DELAY and reset the timer,
>     * we must set the timer now, although it is actually
>     * meaningless.
>     */
> 
> 
>> Did you research why nd6_output has been removed?
> FWIW, that was netinet6/nd6.c 1.227.