Dan McDonald wrote:
- I have mixed feelings about EOL-ing XRESOLV. Nobody uses it, but
for IP-over-<new-technology> XRESOLV can provide a better way for
<new-technology> to implement ARP or ARP-like functionality.
(XRESOLV + PF_ROUTE was the inspiration for PF_KEY.)
I would be very surprised if XRESOLV actually works; last time it was
used was when we did IPv6 over ATM a decade ago, and there has been many
changes in that area. Also, our XRESOLV never supported IPv4.
Part of the history is that other ATM vendors manged to get things to
work without any changes in the IP stack; only the Sun ATM software
required XRESOLV.
If in the future there is a need for XRESOLVE (for IPv*) I think we
should work out the details not only of how to build it, but also how we
can avoid it falling into disrepair.
Erik
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