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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: mparemm@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 destination cache in Linux kernel
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:58:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E136D02.3060302@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110704.174619.1196575558517508080.davem@davemloft.net>

On 07/04/2011 06:46 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mikhail Paremski<mparemm@gmail•com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:35:04 -0700
>
>> 1. What are the reasons to rout datagrams differently fromIPv4?
>
> It was just a design decision made when the ipv6 routing code
> was implemented.

Presumably there was some rationale for doing it differently than the 
existing IPv4 code.  Or was it just for fun?

>> 2. Where I could get details how IPv6 stack routes datagrams?
>
> By reading the source code.

While the source code has the final say, for someone new to a given part 
of the kernel it is helpful to have a high-level view of the overall 
flow.  It's a lot easier to understand something if you can place it in 
the overall scheme of of things.

Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband•com
www.genband.com

      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-05  0:35 IPv6 destination cache in Linux kernel Mikhail Paremski
2011-07-05  0:46 ` David Miller
2011-07-05 19:58   ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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