Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:43:58 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com,
       bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
       linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices
Message-ID: <20030818074358.GA15633@alpha.home.local>
References: <1061134091.21886.40.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171759540391.00AA8CAB@192.168.128.16> <1061137577.21885.50.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171827130739.00C3905F@192.168.128.16> <1061141045.21885.74.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030817224849.GB734@alpha.home.local> <20030817222258.257694b9.davem@redhat.com> <20030818065652.GA15098@alpha.home.local> <20030818000139.6964cd04.davem@redhat.com> <20030818072922.GB15098@alpha.home.local>
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Hmmm replying to myself !

> So as a general rule of thumb, I would recommend people to systematically call
> "ip arp append table output to [network] oif [NIC] src [local_ip]" after an
> "ip address add [local_ip] dev [NIC]". And yes, I agree that these are
> standard tools, but I maintain that the default behaviour should be cleaner.

In fact, not standard. 'ip arp' was brought by Julian Anastasov's
iproute2-iparp-3 patch on top of iproute2. But it seems to do wonderful things.

Cheers,
Willy

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