From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:10:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205200959.GF24764@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43948049.3040508@candelatech.com>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> Marc Singer wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:01:00AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>The association between IP addresses and links is already a bit murky.
> >>Reference the arp_announce sysctl for what I mean. I recall Dave M.
> >>emphasizing on at least one occassion that IP addresses belong to
> >>the _box_, not to the link.
> >Precisely the case. It should be the case that a box response to an
> >arp on *any* interface for *any* IP address known to the box.
>
> I certainly don't mind if this is a configurable, or even default
> behaviour, but we also need the ability to only respond to particular
It was not my intention to derail this discussion to the arp_announce
topic. I only cited it as an example where the IP address <->
interface mapping is not 100% absolute.
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 19:53 [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign Al Boldi
2005-12-02 19:59 ` Pekka Savola
2005-12-02 20:08 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-02 20:38 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-02 22:49 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-10 18:51 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-12-02 21:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-12-08 10:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-12-02 22:40 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-03 13:46 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-03 18:33 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-03 20:25 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-05 14:01 ` John W. Linville
2005-12-05 14:20 ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 17:40 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 17:59 ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 20:56 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 22:19 ` John Heffner
2005-12-05 22:28 ` Rick Jones
2005-12-05 22:30 ` John Heffner
2005-12-05 22:43 ` Rick Jones
2005-12-05 23:03 ` John Heffner
2005-12-06 5:13 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 22:48 ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 22:56 ` John Heffner
2005-12-05 23:10 ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-06 5:18 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 18:00 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-05 20:10 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2005-12-05 21:03 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 20:48 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-11 4:59 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-14 14:19 ` Al Boldi
[not found] <447BB19E14004A4388CB9A864D2BA7630DF693@hq-ex-6.brocade.com>
2005-12-03 14:58 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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