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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:36:17 +0800
From: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:41:53PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > Do you think it could make sense to have this function in a lib, as
> > > vhost user lib does exactly the same?
> > > 
> > > I don't know if it could be useful to others than vhost/virtio though.
> > 
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > Do you think it's worth adding a new helper for ARP in lib/librte_net/?
> > Currently we just need a helper to build RARP packet (the above make_rarp_packet)
> 
> Yes, good idea

+1

	--yliu