Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:44:41 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices |
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David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:49:14 -0400 (EDT) > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: > > >>On 19 Aug 2003, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: >> >>I have been asking for a similar thing as well, David mentioned some >>things that would break, but I believe they break if you use source >>routing, so that seems not to be a real objection. > > > It's not about source routing. It's about failover and being > able to use ARP on interfaces which don't have addresses assigned > to them yet.
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> BTW, another thing which makes the source address selection for > outgoing ARPs a real touchy area is the following. Some weird > configurations actually respond with different ARP answers based upon > the source address in the ARP request. You can ask Julian Anastasov > about such (arguably pathological) setups.
It seems that these reasons would not preclude the addition of a flag that would default to the current behaviour but allow the behaviour that other setups desire easily? That seems to be all that folks are really arguing for. If/when the user enabled this new flag, then they should be fully responsible for the change in behaviour, and they can deal with it as needed.
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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