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Date:      Thu, 22 May 2008 01:14:37 +0300
From:      "Niki Denev" <nike_d@cytexbg.com>
To:        "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lagg0.2 style vlans on lagg(4) interface
Message-ID:  <2e77fc10805211514q59dd0eadkac2edce50d6c22f7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200805212332.13993.max@love2party.net>
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 23:22:52 Niki Denev wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
>> > Looks good, though I'd probably move up the _INVOKE to before the
>> > ARPs are sent out.  Probably between twiddling the hardware and
>> > sending ARPs (though that needs an else-case if the interface is
>                  ^-------------------------------------------------
>> > still down).  In fact the ARPs could be sent from an event hook, too.
>    ---------^
>> >  This would get rid of INET specific code in the LL-interface code.
>>
>> I thought about moving it up too, but in this case isn't it going to
>> be called only if the interface is up (IFF_UP)?
>
> See above.
>

Oh, I've missed that.

So, generating ARPs from an event handler looks to like the best solution.
But in that case what would be the correct place for it?
if_ethersubr.c and the others (fw,fddi,arc...) that may use ARP?

Niki



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