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Re: ioctl() on socket fd's take 3 seconds on 1.7.7

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> > I tried to understand what this flag is for. As far as I can
> > understand, windows will always reply to ARP requests. There's a
> > registry entry for "gratuitous arp". So doesn't that imply IFF_NOARP
> > will be set for all interfaces?
> 
> You mean, it should *not* be set for all interface, don't you?
> 
> PPP and SLIP interfaces usually don't do ARP, so I just set the
> flag for them unconditionally.

Yes - it should *not* be set for all interfaces, except SLIP, PPP as you've
previously mentioned.

Jason



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