From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274859AbTHSRKl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:10:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S273015AbTHSRIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:08:38 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:16011 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272311AbTHSREI (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:04:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:56:11 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Richard Underwood Cc: skraw@ithnet.com, willy@w.ods.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Message-Id: <20030819095611.0fb8f9a3.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB57@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB57@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:02:20 +0100 Richard Underwood wrote: > David S. Miller wrote: > > Under Linux, by default, IP addresses are owned by the system > > not by interfaces. This increases the likelyhood of successful > > communication on a subnet. > > > This is crap. Nope, the RFCs allow this. So this is where we must agree to disagree. Because host ownership of IP addresses is the basis for all of the arguments and it completely justifies Linux's ARP behavior on both sides.