Re: refactoring ip_output() and the L2 _output()

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:26:47AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I don't think it would be an improvement - you'd need a separate table,
> and you'd need to do two lookups, one to find the cloning route, and
> then to find the arp entry.  Right now the arp entry, if present, is
> found directly.

I disagree. You are ignoring the impact of having the leaf nodes in the
routing table, which can be quite significant.

Joerg