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

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:47:40 +0300 (MSK)


Hello!

> Before I patched the kernel, I did some tests on the IBM AIX-Machines.
> I find out that AIX also does ARP type checking. In my tests the
> machine only accepted ARP type 1 an ARP type 6 packets on Ethernet.
> ARP types of i. e. 4 or 5 are discarded. IBM refers here to RFC1042.
...
> So, why not to make linux accepting ARP type 6 on ethernet?

OK, we have the precedent 8)

Alexey

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