Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Underwood <> | Subject | RE: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:16:18 +0100 |
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David S. Miller wrote: > > Which nicely sums up the bug, really. > > Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send > packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses > assigned to it? > IP packets you mean? You don't? ;) It would depend on why you're doing it naturally. Mostly, I'd have thought that if a host doesn't have an IP number it doesn't get to use ARP.
> Linux allows that, and in fact it's a useful feature. > > Consider MSG_DONTROUTE as well. > Irrelevant, ARP should stick to resolving Layer 2 issues, not be misused as some Layer 3 routeing protocol.
> BTW, this ARP source address algorithm we use comes from > ipv6, it would be instructive to go and see why they do > things the way they do. > If you'd like to give me a reference, I'd be happy to look at the spec. It doesn't matter where you got the concept from, though - it's flawed.
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