Re: Proxy ARP on 2.1.124

Richard Titmuss (Richard@b29net.bt.co.uk)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:23:14 +0100


Brian,

> On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:52:21AM +0100, Richard Titmuss wrote:
> > x.x.109.128 * 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth0
> > x.x.109.128 * 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth0
>
> You have two routes to this network - I don't know if this would be a
> problem though.

Yes I noticed that. I really need to update my network scripts so that
the extra route is not added but I'm trying to keep the machine working
with my 2.0.x kernel at the moment too.

> > [root]# arp -Ds x.x.109.156 eth0 pub
> > [root]#
> > [root]# cat /proc/net/arp
> > IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask
> > Device
> > x.x.109.129 0x1 0x2 00:60:83:7C:A1:00
> > * eth0
> > x.x.109.156 0x1 0xc 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > * eth0
>
> These are symptoms rather than causes, but
> - It hasn't picked up the eth0 hardware address. You could try doing it
> manually, i.e. arp -s x.x.109.156 00:47:43:33:02:09 pub

That's what I thought & what I use with 2.0.x. The network code appears
to have changed lots in 2.1.x. After searching the mailing lists I
believe that this
is now the correct behavior.

Richard

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