Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbXBMJXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:23:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751220AbXBMJXs (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:23:48 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45010 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbXBMJXr (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:23:47 -0500 Subject: Re: ARP hidden patch vs. arp ignore/announce From: Arjan van de Ven To: Menny Hamburger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:52:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1171356740.12771.54.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 16 > If there is currently no way to provide this functionality using > arp_ignore/arp_annonce/arp_filter or their friends, why is this still a > patch > And is not integrated into the mainline kernel? eh? if you keep reading the doc it'll explain that there is arptables in the current kernels, which is like iptables for arp, and you can do very finegrained control with that, including the ignore stuff... - 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/