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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:56:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4394C5B6.8020301@psc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4394C3D4.9050909@unfix.org>

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> John Heffner wrote:
> 
>>Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>
>>>I wonder how many RFC's it violates. An interface must only answer ARP's
>>>on the interface that it is configured on, not anything else.
>>
>>Not true.  See RFC 1122, section 3.3.4.  The standard leaves this
>>decision up to the implementation, for good reason.
> 
> 
> RFC1122 is a document about multicast. ARP is broadcast see the very old
>  RFC826/STD0037. Multicast didn't even work on much of the hardware from
> the times that that document was written.

???  RFC 1122 is the Hosts Requirements RFC.  It applies to any host 
implementing IP.  Maybe you're thinking of 1112?

   -John

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-05 22:56 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 [this message]
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
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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