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George V. Neville-Neil e162ea60d4 Add a queue to hold packets while we await an ARP reply.
When a fast machine first brings up some non TCP networking program
it is quite possible that we will drop packets due to the fact that
only one packet can be held per ARP entry.  This leads to packets
being missed when a program starts or restarts if the ARP data is
not currently in the ARP cache.

This code adds a new sysctl, net.link.ether.inet.maxhold, which defines
a system wide maximum number of packets to be held in each ARP entry.
Up to maxhold packets are queued until an ARP reply is received or
the ARP times out.  The default setting is the old value of 1
which has been part of the BSD networking code since time
immemorial.

Expose the time we hold an incomplete ARP entry by adding
the sysctl net.link.ether.inet.wait, which defaults to 20
seconds, the value used when the new ARP code was added..

Reviewed by:	bz, rpaulo
MFC after: 3 weeks
2010-11-12 22:03:02 +00:00
bin sh: Remove unused man page for echo builtin. 2010-11-12 15:40:00 +00:00
cddl Fix ztest when it is executed by just 'ztest' and not by full path 2010-11-01 10:42:14 +00:00
contrib Update xz to release 5.0.0 2010-11-12 16:53:17 +00:00
crypto Upgrade to OpenSSH 5.6p1. 2010-11-11 11:46:19 +00:00
etc Add firmware downloader for Atheros AR3011 based USB Bluetooth devices. 2010-11-12 19:43:12 +00:00
games mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls 2010-10-08 12:40:16 +00:00
gnu Revert to libgcc for sparc64. 2010-11-12 15:52:27 +00:00
include Add a new libc function: cfmakesane(3). 2010-11-02 17:00:56 +00:00
kerberos5 Fix a typo. 2010-01-09 18:53:03 +00:00
lib Update xz to release 5.0.0 2010-11-12 16:53:17 +00:00
libexec Use -fPIC to build libexec/rtld-elf on sparc64, so it will also be able 2010-11-11 22:53:55 +00:00
release move the initialization of BINMAKE earler, so it is 2010-11-12 12:48:41 +00:00
rescue MFtbemd: 2010-08-23 22:24:11 +00:00
sbin The first customer of the SO_USER_COOKIE option: 2010-11-12 13:05:17 +00:00
secure Revert changes of 'assure' to 'ensure' made in r211936. 2010-09-11 10:49:56 +00:00
share Stop documenting vgonel() after its converting to the static function: 2010-11-12 12:07:36 +00:00
sys Add a queue to hold packets while we await an ARP reply. 2010-11-12 22:03:02 +00:00
tools Add a queue to hold packets while we await an ARP reply. 2010-11-12 22:03:02 +00:00
usr.bin Add my birthday to the calendar so everyone can send me presents. 2010-11-10 18:45:32 +00:00
usr.sbin Add firmware downloader for Atheros AR3011 based USB Bluetooth devices. 2010-11-12 19:43:12 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy New Year 2010! :-) 2009-12-31 10:00:37 +00:00
LOCKS
MAINTAINERS Add a comment to MAINTAINERS indicating that sbin/routed is in fact 2010-04-10 12:29:09 +00:00
Makefile Complete the integration of tbemd branch into head. 2010-11-10 06:39:49 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Replace libgcc.a by libcompiler_rt.a. 2010-11-11 15:48:27 +00:00
Makefile.mips Guard against TARGET_ABI being undefined (TARGET_ABI will go away soon) 2010-08-26 14:54:12 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Stop documenting vgonel() after its converting to the static function: 2010-11-12 12:07:36 +00:00
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