Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262046AbTHTQtp (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262051AbTHTQto (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:49:44 -0400 Received: from d12lmsgate-2.de.ibm.com ([194.196.100.235]:4556 "EHLO d12lmsgate-2.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262046AbTHTQtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:49:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3F43A631.50308@zurich.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:47:45 +0200 From: Roman Pletka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020903 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski CC: bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, davem@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, willy@w.ods.org, richard@aspectgroup.co.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 References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB58@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <20030819145403.GA3407@alpha.home.local> <20030819170751.2b92ba2e.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030819085717.56046afd.davem@redhat.com> <20030819185219.116fd259.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F43891E.9060204@zurich.ibm.com> <20030820175504.07658147.skraw@ithnet.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 33 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:43:42 +0200 >Roman Pletka wrote: > > >>Please read carefully what you have quoted: >>It says: *An* implementation... and then goes on with a citation of RFC 826. >>A simple citation does not make a valid standard yet. It just refers to it >>as an example for this specific issue. That's all. > > >Sorry, but my reading is this "An implementation of the ( Address Resolution >Protocol (ARP) [LINK:2] ) ..." >Do you understand what I mean? > >If you insist on RFC-826 being only one of several (possible) ARP >implementations, can you then please name an RFC where ARP as a protocol is >clearly defined? I mean there must be one, or not? This is not the point. As has already been mentioned some days ago by davem RFC 826 explicitely states at the beginning that it is not the specification of an Internet Standard and thats what I meant. So let's stop spinning round on this. -- Roman - 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/