Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272747AbTHSRxZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:53:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272602AbTHSRvK (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:51:10 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:62091 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270772AbTHSRn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:43:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:36:13 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, 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: <20030819103613.4485e549.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030819173920.GA3301@marowsky-bree.de> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB57@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <070c01c36653$7f3c1ab0$c801a8c0@llewella> <20030819083438.26c985b9.davem@redhat.com> <20030819173920.GA3301@marowsky-bree.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-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: 1064 Lines: 29 On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:39:20 +0200 Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > 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... And, as Alan said, we provide a way for one to obtain your networking religion of week. Changing the default is not an option, that would undoubtedly break things. - 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/