Re: [PATCH] CDP handler for linux

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:32:40 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Chris Crowther wrote:
> either - it just sits there, collecting and sending information. The only
> thing you would really need in userspace, would be tools to read
> information from the cdp handler if you wanted to do more than just look
> at the neighbor summary. I can't see any real advantages of running it as
> a daemon as opposed to a kernel component.

Except that as userspace daemon if cdpd goes splat the kernel generally
doesnt go splat either.

-Dan

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