Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:36:00 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:35:21 +0200 "Carlos Velasco" <carlosev@newipnet.com> wrote:
> On 27/07/2003 at 17:14 David S. Miller wrote: > >Other systems do not give you the capabilities our routing layer does, > >such as route based source address selections. So it is no surprise > >that they behave differently in this area. > > Problem is that linux is unable to behave like the other OS and systems > do in a simple way. > The easy way is the "hidden" patch, if it's applied in the kernel.
Not true, anyone is free to design a graphical GUI or shell script (or even a wrapper for the /sbin/ip tool) that gives you the default behavior you want, without any user interaction whatsoever. - 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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