Re: Current Status of 1.3.88?

really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
17 Apr 1996 17:41:04 +0400


Alan Cox (alan@cymru.NET) wrote:

: With big cisco systems (pair of 4000 series I believe this is) and one in hot
: swap mode there is an arp oddity. What happens is that the one the cisco (running
: one) answers the broadcast arp query, but doesn't answer the unicast refresh
: and links pause while it tries to do unicast queries, then does a broadcast
: and the cisco answers that. This repeats cyclically.

Got it.
Why, why is the world not perfect? 8)8)

Alexey Kuznetsov.