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Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP

from [David S. Miller] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, paulus@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, fcusack@xxxxxxxxx, dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, carlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Why don't you just queue the payload packets in a "resolution queue"
until the socket is created?  Just make the resolution queue packets
timeout using a value that will easily exceed any reasonable PPP
negotiation time.

All this ordered packet arrival shit is just beyond stupid.
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