Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices | Date | 19 Aug 2003 19:42:24 GMT |
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In article <20030819112912.359eaea6.davem@redhat.com>, David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote: | On 19 Aug 2003 14:30:26 -0400 | Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net> wrote: | | > If you are not on a shared lan, then it will *ONLY* work if linux is | > on the other end. No other system will work. | | And these other systems are broken. (actually, older Cisco equipment | correctly responds to the ARP regardless of source IP) | | Just because some Cisco engineer says that it is correct doesn't | make it is.
What you say is true, but in the real world being able to work with the most commonly used network hardware is a hard requirement. When "conforms to RFC" colides with "works" there's an issue, particularly when the RFC allows several behaviours (bad RFC!).
I would hope that it is possible to get a single flag to force all packets out of a NIC configured with the source IP in the packet, I don't feel the need to make that the default behaviour, just to find some alternative to patches or source routing. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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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