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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:33:42 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        ravi prasad <raprasad@usa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP processes
Message-ID:  <20010319233342.J29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010320064911.21557.qmail@nwcst286.netaddress.usa.net>; from raprasad@usa.net on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:49:11PM -0700
References:  <20010320064911.21557.qmail@nwcst286.netaddress.usa.net>

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* ravi prasad <raprasad@usa.net> [010319 22:49] wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I found that the packets to be sent are queued in a interface queue by the
> ipv6_output function if the interface is busy. My doubt is whether the packets
> are sent through the interfaces by separate processes.

They are sent later by a timeout routine that drains the queue into
the driver.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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