Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Dec 2001 22:10:01 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: ARP shows client is given wrong MAC Address for system with 2 NICs |
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Have you tried turning on arp-filtering? It generally acts more sane in a 2+ NIC machine. Try:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter
Q A wrote:
> > Thanks, but I am not moving the IP from one to the > other. I am just saying it doesn't matter _(A) does > not have to be eth0. Try setting up a system with 2 > NICs and follow my notes. I have checked another > system with a normal 2.4.3 kernel. > > Thanks for yours and everyone elses help. > > Q > > > --- "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> > wrote: > >>[SNIPPED...] >>There is an ARP cache, always has been, always will >>be. This is so >>an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) probe doesn't >>have to occur for >>every data transmission. It is presumed that an IP >>address, including >>your own, won't jump around from device-to-device. >> >>You are moving your IP address to another device >>(MAC address). What >>do you expect? >> >>You can delete the old entries from your ARP cache, >>but it has to >>be done for every system that would be affected or >>you can just wait >>for the ARP cache entry to expire. >> >> /sbin/arp -d ipaddress >> >> >>Cheers, >>Dick Johnson >> >>Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine >>(799.53 BogoMips). >> >> I was going to compile a list of innovations >>that could be >> attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that >>Ctrl-Alt-Del >> was handled in the BIOS, I found that there >>aren't any. >> >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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