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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:19:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG?] unwanted proxy arp in 2.4.19-pre10
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On 13 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 17:21, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > In the absense of the proxy_arp flag, I would not expect that reply,
> > the IP is not on that NIC. Before I "fix" that, is this intended
> > behaviour for some reason? Will I break something if I add check logic?
> > Is there something in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 I missed which will avoid this
> > response?
>
> Your suspicion and the reality don't match. The RFC's leave the
> situation unclear and some OS's do either. Newer 2.4 has arpfilter which
> can be used to control what actually occurs

Can we at least have matching defaults for ipv4 and ipv6 ??  Having ipv6
behave the opposite just isn't intuitive.

	Gerhard



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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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