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Eliminate nd6_nud_hint() and its TCP bindings.

Description

Eliminate nd6_nud_hint() and its TCP bindings.

Initially function was introduced in r53541 (KAME initial commit) to

"provide hints from upper layer protocols that indicate a connection
is making "forward progress"" (quote from RFC 2461 7.3.1 Reachability
Confirmation).

However, it was converted to do nothing (e.g. just return) in r122922

(tcp_hostcache implementation) back in 2003. Some defines were moved
to tcp_var.h in r169541. Then, it was broken (for non-corner cases)
by r186119 (L2<>L3 split) in 2008 (NULL ifp in nd6_lookup). So,
right now this code is broken and has no "real" base users.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3699

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melifaroAuthored on
Differential Revision
D3699: Eliminate nd6_nud_hint() and its TCP bindings.
Parents
rS288300: MFC r283795
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