Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270256AbTHQNps (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:45:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270248AbTHQNps (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:45:48 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:49292 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270243AbTHQNpj (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:45:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices From: Alan Cox To: Carlos Velasco Cc: Lamont Granquist , Bill Davidsen , "David S. Miller" , bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, Marcelo Tosatti , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200308171516090038.0043F977@192.168.128.16> References: <20030728213933.F81299@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200308171509570955.003E4FEC@192.168.128.16> <200308171516090038.0043F977@192.168.128.16> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1061127715.21885.35.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-3) Date: 17 Aug 2003 14:41:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 710 Lines: 23 On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 14:16, Carlos Velasco wrote: > So, > > According to RFC 1027: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1027.txt Proxy ARP only. > A.3. ARP datagram > > An ARP reply is discarded if the destination IP address does not > match the local host address. Linux counts all the IP addresses it has as being local host address. And Linux btw has arpfilter which can do far more than just imitate your favourite network religion of the week - 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/