Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 2/2] [SLIRP] Delayed IP packets

2011-08-01 Thread Fabien Chouteau
On 29/07/2011 19:35, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-07-29 18:25, Fabien Chouteau wrote: >> In the current implementation, if Slirp tries to send an IP packet to a >> client >> with an unknown hardware address, the packet is simply dropped and an ARP >> request is sent (if_encap in slirp/slirp.c). >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 2/2] [SLIRP] Delayed IP packets

2011-07-29 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-07-29 18:25, Fabien Chouteau wrote: > In the current implementation, if Slirp tries to send an IP packet to a client > with an unknown hardware address, the packet is simply dropped and an ARP > request is sent (if_encap in slirp/slirp.c). > > With this patch, Slirp will send the ARP reque

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 2/2] [SLIRP] Delayed IP packets

2011-07-29 Thread Fabien Chouteau
In the current implementation, if Slirp tries to send an IP packet to a client with an unknown hardware address, the packet is simply dropped and an ARP request is sent (if_encap in slirp/slirp.c). With this patch, Slirp will send the ARP request, re-queue the packet and try to send it later. The