Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751244AbXBMKR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:17:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751248AbXBMKR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:17:58 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:59859 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbXBMKR5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:17:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:16:56 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Menny Hamburger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ARP hidden patch vs. arp ignore/announce In-Reply-To: <1171356740.12771.54.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Message-ID: References: <1171356740.12771.54.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 24 On Feb 13 2007 09:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> 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... > One thing remains, arptables can't do ebtables's -j arpreply. (That would have been too great - I could get rid of the extra br0 interface!) Jan -- - 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/