On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:17:04PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > This fix has been proposed originally by Vlad Yasevich. He says: > > When SCTP makes forward progress (receives a SACK that acks new chunks, > renegs, or answeres 0-window probes) or when HB-ACK arrives, mark > the route as confirmed so we don't unnecessarily send NUD probes. > > Having a simple SCTP client/server that exchange data chunks every 1sec, > without this patch ARP requests are sent periodically every 40-60sec. > With this fix applied, an ARP request is only done once right at the > "session" beginning. Also, when clearing the related ARP cache entry > manually during the session, a new request is correctly done. I have > only "backported" this to net-next and tested that it works, so full > credit goes to Vlad. > > Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
