Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270448AbTHSPKJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:10:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270472AbTHSPJs (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:09:48 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:39146 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270651AbTHSPHy (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:07:54 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:07:51 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Willy Tarreau Cc: richard@aspectgroup.co.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davem@redhat.com, willy@w.ods.org, 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: <20030819170751.2b92ba2e.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030819145403.GA3407@alpha.home.local> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB58@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <20030819145403.GA3407@alpha.home.local> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 20 On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:54:03 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > This is exactly the case I calmly discussed privately with David then Alexey. > Both explained me that in fact, the remote host shouldn't be filtering the > ARP requests based on the source IP they provide, Hm, what rule is broken by the remote host, then? I mean "remote host shouln't" reads like "according to RFC-XYZ he should not". IFF of course the remote host is not broken, then our idea must be broken. Else world would have kind of a definition gap in this layer of networking, and I hardly believe that. Regards, Stephan - 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/