Subject: Re: IPv6 destination cache in Linux kernel

From: Chris Friesen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:58:58 -0600

On 07/04/2011 06:46 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mikhail Paremski<[email-masked]>
> 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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