Re: [PATCH] CDP handler for linux

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:46:09 -0700 (PDT)


From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Date: 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.

I really think this should be in userspace too.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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