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

From: Daniel Gryniewicz
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 14:34:58 EST


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 15:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:17:00PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:48, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > In my experience everybody who wants a different behaviour use some
> > > more or less broken stateful L2/L3 switching hacks (like ipvs) or
> > > having broken routing tables. While such hacks may be valid for some
> > > uses they should not impact the default case.
> >
> > So, changing your default route is a "hack"? That's all that's
> > necessary. You can even do it with "route del/route add".
>
> Necessary to do what exactly?

Cause Linux to issue an arp request with a tell address not on the
interface sending the arp.
--
Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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