Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:54:18 +0200 (EET) | From | Julian Anastasov <> | Subject | Re: Device ARP'ing |
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Hello,
> Hello, > I know that this has been brought up in the past ... but can someone > refresh my memory as to why network devices will respond to arp requests, > even with 'NOARP' set? (kernel 2.[23].x, via 'ifconfig <Dev> -arp', or 'ip > link set up <dev> arp off') > > I would assume, that if you tell a device not to arp .. it shouldn't .. I > have a patch for 2.2.13, which does the trick, but we'd like to upgrade the > kernel on our cluster to 2.3 for the increased memory and file size support, > but can't because the machines respond to arp requests on the devices we > don't want them to respond on ..
In 2.2.14 you can hide this device using:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device_name>/hidden
Read about it in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
May be this functionality will be ported to 2.3 soon.
Regards
-- Julian Anastasov <uli@linux.tu-varna.acad.bg>
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