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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CDP handler for linux
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   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