Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0

[David Miller]

From: Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:16:07 -0500

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> 
> > 2. What's about your suggestion, I thought about this and I am going to agree.
> > 
> >    Arguments, which convinced me are:
> > 
> >    - arping still works.
> >    - any piece of reasonable software should work.
> >    - if Windows understands DaD (is it really true? I cannot believe)
> >      and it is unhappy about our responce and does not block use
> >      of duplicate address only due to this, we _must_ accomodate ASAP.
> >    - if we do,we have to use 0 protocol address, no choice.
> 
> I agree the target protocol address should be 0 in this case.

Patches, someone :-)
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