Messages in this thread | | | From | storner@image ... | Subject | Re: ARP - hardware type 6 / rfc1042 | Date | 8 Feb 1999 23:20:26 +0100 |
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In <36BEF293.90E8BEDE@lrp.de> Volker Dormeyer <Volker.Dormeyer@lrp.de> writes:
[token-ring/ethernet problems]
>The linux box sends the arp request packet with hardware type 1 but >the switch replies the packet with hardware type 6 in the arp packet. >It seems that linux don't understand hardware type 6 - I'm not sure.
When I was running a pure token-ring setup (until end of last year), Linux handled type 6 arp's just fine. Looking at linux/net/ipv4/arp.c it still seems as if it would handle it OK (look for ARPHRD_IEEE802).
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