From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mbm@alt.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4181F12F.7060400@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029000651.6fd7360f.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700
> People hate it that when there's a decision of whether to
> reply to something or not, we do whatever we can to reply
> to packets we receive if we can find a way to do so. This
> approache increases the likelyhood that two hosts can
> communicate successfully. I need not remind people about
> how much people dislike our default ARP behavior :-) but
> it is done that way for the same reason.
Note I was distictly kind enough not to bring it up either :)
(I have already patched & hacked around that problem some years ago!)
Since you finally accepted the arp fixup, maybe you'd at least let
in a flag to change the default behaviour of downed interfaces too?
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 6:46 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases Andrew Morton
2004-10-29 6:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29 7:10 ` Ben Greear
2004-10-29 7:06 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29 7:28 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-10-29 7:39 ` Andi Kleen
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