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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:42:39AM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:
> >So I started to look at the ARP
> >code, but it of course lacks the kernel - userland communication
> >interface. I would appreciate any ideas about what would be the easier
> >way to implement such a thing where the kernel could wait (up to some
> >reasonable time-out) a userland daemon to install a new route.
> 
> Why don't you simply discard the packet and wait for the next retry?

Or alternatively use an internal queue of limited size to keep track of
those packages.

Joerg