Re: Restrict local IP announcements in ARP requests

[Julian Anastasov]

	Hello,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> But I want the docs for the sysctl to talk about this.  Something
> simple like:
>
> +	1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
> +	subnet for this interface as far as we know.  In some environments
> +	subnets may be active that this system is not aware of, thus this
> +	setting might cause problems in such cases.
>
> Tweak it however you wish, just get the idea/warning across.
>
> I'd also prefer if you at least lightly define what "best" source address
> means in the context of arp_announce==2.

	I hope I explained them using my non-native english :)
May be the info is not good enough and can be improved. This is
against latest bk (there will be no conflict with the recently added 
flag):

http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/arp_announce-2.6.2-4.diff

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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