Re: Strange Problems with ARP and Linux

From: Richard Mueller
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 09:22:35 EST


Hy Folks...

>>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
D'OH!

> 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.
;-)

Reading before patching should be default behaviour.

Sorry for the inconvinience :-(

bye
richard
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