Re: Change proxy_arp to respond only for valid neighbours

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:42:47 +0200 (EET)
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm ready to leave this idea if the changes become too complex.

I think it's not so much your changes as this huge ugly ARP receive
processing function.  It is a mockery of functional programming :-)

I even tried to split this damn thing up today into smaller chunks but
there is so much shared state (like 6 or 7 live variables that all of
the logic ends up referencing) that such efforts proved futile.

It's hard and time consuming to verify any patch to this code for
that reason.