Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272338AbTHSRmz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:42:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272327AbTHSRmG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:42:06 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:20613 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272342AbTHSRkl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:40:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:39:20 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: "David S. Miller" , Bas Bloemsaat Cc: richard@aspectgroup.co.uk, skraw@ithnet.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: <20030819173920.GA3301@marowsky-bree.de> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB57@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <070c01c36653$7f3c1ab0$c801a8c0@llewella> <20030819083438.26c985b9.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030819083438.26c985b9.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 30 On 2003-08-19T08:34:38, "David S. Miller" said: > There are two valid ways the RFCs allow systems to handle > IP addresses. > > 1) IP addresses are owned by "the host" > 2) IP addresses are owned by "the interface" > > Linux does #1, many systems do #2, both are correct. Yes, both are "correct" in the sense that the RFC allows this interpretation. The _sensible_ interpretation for practical networking however is #2, and the only persons who seem to believe differently are those in charge of the Linux network code... Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SuSE Labs try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG -- Samuel Beckett - 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/