On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 02:02:24PM +0000, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > I didn't receive any negative comments, except for Alexey who believed the
> > check should be done in user space.
>
> Now you receive another negative comment, for the 2.2 version :)
Thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated.
> Currently, in Linux 2.2 there is a device flag "hidden" which
> is based on this statement: many host can configure same IP address
> but it is assumed that only one is advertised. Your patch now will
Yes, I know LVS and arp_invisible, later renamed arp_hidden
> print messages for all these hidden addresses. They are not advertised
> and there is no problem caused from duplication.
I thought about that, but isn't the shared IP just an IP alias and not the
primary IP? As far as I know, the machines which share the IP have a primary
IP and put that one in their ARP packets, so my patch should not complain.
That said, adding a flag that lets you disable the duplicate IP detection on
an interface basis wouldn't be a bad idea, I'll look into this.
> - sip=127.0.0.0/8, this address is shared but we "assume" it is not
> advertised from the neighbours
Are you saying that some machines would ARP with a source IP of localhost?
That'd be pretty broken, wouldn't it? Or you talking about a kind of DOS
that would trigger warnings on all the machines?
(the dupe check could ignore that)
> - you work with ifa_address and not with ifa_local and ifa_mask.
I'll look into this too.
Thanks for your feedback.
Marc
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