Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices
From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>, davem@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 15:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:17:00PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:48, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > In my experience everybody who wants a different behaviour use some
> > > more or less broken stateful L2/L3 switching hacks (like ipvs) or
> > > having broken routing tables. While such hacks may be valid for some
> > > uses they should not impact the default case.
> > 
> > So, changing your default route is a "hack"?  That's all that's
> > necessary.  You can even do it with "route del/route add".
> 
> Necessary to do what exactly? 

Cause Linux to issue an arp request with a tell address not on the
interface sending the arp.
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Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
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