Re: Strange Problems with ARP and Linux

[Baruch Even]

Richard Mueller wrote:
> 5.) Solution: Dirty Kernel-Patch
>   With my skillful hands I wrote a dirty hack:
> <patch>
> --- arp.c       Fri Jan 13 16:44:06 2006
> +++ arp.c.new   Fri Jan 13 16:43:52 2006
> @@ -342,9 +342,9 @@
>    switch (IN_DEV_ARP_ANNOUNCE(in_dev)) {

Finding this variable in the kernel showed me that if you do:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_announce

Will get you what you want, in a user-mode only configuration. Be sure
to do that in the startup scripts as it will not be retained on boot.

Baruch
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