Which module contains functins(arptimer)?

rozhuk.im at gmail.com rozhuk.im at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 15:53:49 UTC 2011


Arp - is a part of INET (ipv4).
But arp proto can be used with any other L3 proto to resolve L2 addr from L3
addr.
TCP/IP is L4 proto and it can work without IPv4 - on IPv6.

 
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Rozhuk Ivan
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Palmer
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:07 PM
> To: Vladimir Budnev
> Cc: FreeBSD Net
> Subject: Re: Which module contains functins(arptimer)?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:51:48PM +0400, Vladimir Budnev wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > How to determine which module contains specific functinos?. For
> example
> > we have arptimer in netinet/if_ether.c.
> > But how to find in which ko it compiles?
> > Iv tried
> > ls /boot/kernel/ | grep ko.symbols | xargs strings | grep -i arptimer
> > but that didnt work :(
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> arptimer is declared static so I doubt it will show up in linker symbol
> tables or via "strings".  Also AFAIK we don't support loading TCP/IP as
> a
> module so its probably only compiled into the kernel itself and not
> available as a module.
> 
> Gary
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