Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: duplicate IP detection | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 15 Oct 1999 22:04:41 +0200 |
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marc_news@merlins.org (Marc Merlin) writes: > > > Shortly: ARP packets with your IP source are legal and common phenomenon. > > Would you maintain that statement if I check that the source MAC address is > different from mine? > In other words, is there any good reason for an ARP packet with my IP > address as the source, and a source MAC address that is different from mine > to exist (without it being a conflict that the kernel should whine about)?
Yes. It can happen for certain HA setups when you do a local IP address takeover on failure (the application crashed but the kernel still runs)
-Andi
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