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Subject: Re: [BUG?] unwanted proxy arp in 2.4.19-pre10
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 20:19, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > 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.

IPv6 doesn't have ARP it has neighbour discovery. The two are very
different in quite a few ways. 

Alan

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