Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275272AbTHSQaS (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:30:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S276317AbTHSQ12 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:27:28 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:26242 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S275406AbTHSQTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:19:18 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:19:16 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Bas Bloemsaat" Cc: richard@aspectgroup.co.uk, davem@redhat.com, willy@w.ods.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, 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: <20030819181916.4e636495.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <070c01c36653$7f3c1ab0$c801a8c0@llewella> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB57@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <070c01c36653$7f3c1ab0$c801a8c0@llewella> 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: 818 Lines: 20 On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:11:59 +0200 "Bas Bloemsaat" wrote: > > The RFC I quoted (985) says the ARP packets generated by Linux > > should be dropped. Sure, the RFC isn't a standard, but there ARE plenty of > > implementations that obey it for perfectly valid security reasons. > Same goes for 1180. It it doesn't define a standard either, but makes > perfectly clear that any interface has it's own ARP, not one ARP for the > entire system. Does "has its own ARP" mean "has its own ARP-table"? I just want to understand you correctly. 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/