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IP stack doesn't buffer packets with unknown layer-2 destinations #4

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azonenberg opened this issue Oct 24, 2018 · 0 comments

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azonenberg commented Oct 24, 2018

In case of a miss in the ARP cache the first packet goes to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff; after the cache is hot future data goes to the correct place.

Correct behavior would be to grab these packets out of the stream and hold in a buffer until they had a known destination or a timeout elapsed.

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