Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275322AbTHSDV6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275319AbTHSDV6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:58 -0400 Received: from evrtwa1-ar2-4-33-045-084.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.33.45.84]:55789 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275316AbTHSDV4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:21:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3F41979C.3070408@candelatech.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:00 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: "David S. Miller" , Willy Tarreau , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, 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 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 23 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Okay, I'll show my ignorance and ask... the Documentation for arp_filter > says source routing must be used. Is there some flag I'm missing, or a way > to avoid having a rule per address, or is the 8 bit rule number larger in > 2.6, or ??? Or is having a lot of IPs on one machine not an imaginable > case? Last response I got was that one would have to hack the netlink api to get a bigger index because the design (and rfc, unfortunately) describe the field as only 8 bits. I never did hear a response to my comment that this was inadequate in this age of vlans... -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - 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/