Re: ARP - hardtype 6 on ether device - [kernelpatch]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:24:43 +0000 (GMT)


> other UNIX machines (AIX, DEC UNIX) are having no problems.
> And at least why are also WinNT and Win95 working with this
> cabletron-switch behaviour.

Because they support the optional RFC1042 stuff

> After that, I looked to the linux-kernel source and patched
> something in /linux/net/ipv4/arp.c to make the kernel accept
> both arp types on ethernet. All our networking with the linux
> boxes is working right now.
>
> Any suggestions on this?

The above paragraph would have been my suggestion

> It would be kind if there is somebody who can take a
> look at it.

I'll be glad to. We already have to cope with strange bogoid arp stuff
with AX.25 and NetROM so standard only slightly strange ethernet is no big
deal.

Alan

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