Re: em driver - issue #2

[Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This sounds like an ARP issue.  If the machine is being pounded
>     to the point where it cannot ARP IP addresses, then packets will
>     be queued both on the machine awaiting arp or on other machines
>     trying to arp the one being pounded.

The ARP code only queues 1 packet pending resolution.  All the other
packets get dropped.  So when the ARP request is resolved, at most
one queued packet gets sent.