Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932298AbXKPOPW (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:15:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759485AbXKPOPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:15:08 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33673 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759481AbXKPOPH (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:15:07 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:13:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20071115.152813.89410917.davem@davemloft.net> <20071116.010548.94286711.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hd5b9080a.c45-01-12.sta.perspektivbredband.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RsP8v45WmLMwkmW6bGpNWJAkmek= Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 17 >>>>> "DM" == David Miller writes: >> Reply: >> Opcode: reply (0x0002) >> Sender HW: 00:AA.00:AA:00:AA >> Sender IP: 192.168.0.1 >> Target HW: 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA >> Target IP: 192.168.0.1 DM> And this is exactly a sensible response in my opinion. Why send the reply at all? Sending a unicast packet with yourself as destination MAC seems a bit useless. Do switches propagate it? /Benny - 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/