Re: ARP request retransmitting

From: Gleb Smirnoff (glebius_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 11/07/05

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    On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:04:51PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
    T> I suggest to keep sending ARP requests while there is a demand for
    T> this (we are trying to transmit packets to this particular IP),
    T> ratelimiting these requests to one per second. This will help in a
    T> quite common case, when some host on net is rebooting, and we are
    T> waiting for him to come up, and notice this only after 1 - 20 seconds
    T> since the time it is reachable.

    Here is code explaining what I am speaking about. 

    -- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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