From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 25 21:54:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp [202.249.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E3C37B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp) Received: from localhost ([3ffe:501:100f:13ff::e]) by shuttle.wide.toshiba.co.jp (8.9.1+3.1W/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA20796; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:56:36 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:53:20 +0900 Message-ID: From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Struct ifnet initalization. In-Reply-To: <02D6ECDE.0C382BA7.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <02D6ECDE.0C382BA7.9513E96F@netscape.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.5.8 (Smooth) Emacs/21.0 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan. MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 17 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:32:53 -0400, >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said: > I have the following questions. > Whether any special initialization fo the ifnet structure is required for ipv6? > Some of the structures like ifaddr, sockaddr_dl are initialized in the same way as is done for ipv4. Whether this won't affect the performance? Sorry, but I don't understand your point. What do you mean by "initialization"? Are you talking about the ifnet structure, (in6_)ifaddr structure, or both? Why do you think it can ever affect performance? JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message