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
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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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