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Re: Patch to fix recent clnt_udp change
- To: zack@rabi.columbia.edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: Patch to fix recent clnt_udp change
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:54:04 -0700 (PDT), H.J. Lu wrote:
> >1. I don't like that patch. But I couldn't find a better solution. I
> >want to keep the impact as small as possible.
>
> The problem is that UDP to localhost is blackholed if there's no
> route - isn't that a kernel bug?
>
1. That is UDP.
2. That is to localhost.
Can the kernel queue packets until the interface is up again. It may
be ok for UDP.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)