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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Tad <ecos_removethispart@ds3switch.com>
Cc: eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Is arpresolve() good to get ARP started on an IP address?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070620214559.GB8424@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4678630E.3050406@ds3switch.com>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:13:18PM -0800, Tad wrote:
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:19:50PM -0800, Tad wrote:
> >  
> >>SNMP agent is dropping coldstart and LinkUp traps since ARP table comes 
> >>up without entries
> >>    
> >
> >Maybe i don't understand what you are saying, but if there is no ARP
> >entry, the IP packet which needs to be sent is normally queued and an
> >ARP request is sent out. Once an ARP reply is received the queues
> >packet is then sent. Is this not happening?
> ARP will only que one mbuf, then drops it if more come in  If a 
> coldstart and 2 link-up traps occur at powerup, and if we have 2 
> trapsinks, for example, that's 6 msgs of which 4-5 are dropped.  I need 
> to update the ipdropped snmp stats counter too, cause it took awhile to 
> figure out where the missing packets were going.  Looked tricky to use 
> arpresolve? without dropping any mbuf queued there also.

Ah, O.K. Well, two comments:

SNMP is designed to be unreliable. It uses UDP. So this is acceptable
behaviour.

You could change the single mbuf into a queue. All the macros to do
this exist, so i doubt it would be too big a job.

     Andrew

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-19 19:59 Tad
2007-06-19 22:39 ` Andrew Lunn
2007-06-20 13:12   ` Tad
     [not found]   ` <4678630E.3050406@ds3switch.com>
2007-06-21 15:07     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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