[Fwd: RE: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 04:55:15 EST


> I can't believe that you're advocating networking code where:
>
> 1) It's not predictable - the route of a packet depends on the ARP reply
> generated due to a previous packet.

I'm not. Apply your brain a little. Being able to do lookups via two paths
in parallel is just fine since you can tie the packet path to a specific
lookup, and in the case of multipathing to the same target it does the right
thing too.


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