Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices

From: Stephan von Krawczynski
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 10:28:46 EST


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:54:03 +0200
Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is exactly the case I calmly discussed privately with David then Alexey.
> Both explained me that in fact, the remote host shouldn't be filtering the
> ARP requests based on the source IP they provide,

Hm, what rule is broken by the remote host, then? I mean "remote host shouln't"
reads like "according to RFC-XYZ he should not".
IFF of course the remote host is not broken, then our idea must be broken. Else
world would have kind of a definition gap in this layer of networking, and I
hardly believe that.

Regards,
Stephan
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