Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261244AbTHSTCr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:02:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261238AbTHSSmY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:42:24 -0400 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:61190 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272961AbTHSSb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: <089d01c36680$09c04b30$c801a8c0@llewella> From: "Bas Bloemsaat" To: "David S. Miller" , "Richard Underwood" Cc: , , , , , , , , , , , References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB5E@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <20030819111358.35ef1059.davem@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:30:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 24 > > > Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send > > > packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses > > > assigned to it? > > > > > IP packets you mean? You don't? ;) It would depend on why you're > > doing it naturally. Mostly, I'd have thought that if a host doesn't have an > > IP number it doesn't get to use ARP. > > Of course it gets to use ARP, nothing prevents this. Huh? RFC 826 states that the requesting arp packet sends the protocol address of itself. So no address is no arp. Allowing it to is a violation of that rfc Regards, Bas - 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/