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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:01:55 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jan Stocker <Jan.Stocker@t-online.de>, BOUWSMA Beery <freebsd-user@netscum.dyndns.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Minor things: swi_net: unregistered isr number 
Message-ID:  <20020426230155.45B2A38FF@overcee.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020426021139.F42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net> 

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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > This is well known.  If we recieve an ARP frame before we sent one, then
> > we print this.  eg: a broadcast ARP packet will trigger it.  dhclient
> > etc use bpf etc so ARP isn't initialized at this point.
> 
> We could just put this block of code from arp_rtrequest() into arp_init().
> 
> 	LIST_INIT(&llinfo_arp);
> 	timeout(arptimer, (caddr_t)0, hz);
> 	register_netisr(NETISR_ARP, arpintr);
> 
> I'm not sure why it should to be in arp_rtrequest() in the first place.

You do not want the timer running and using cpu if you are not using ARP
(eg: ppp only).

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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