From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: oan@frozentux.net
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: RFC1812 and CLUSTERIP
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:26:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453FE484.9090705@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161777918.8705.63.camel@LAPTOP4.MSHOME>
Oskar Andreasson wrote:
> Hi all again,
>
> I've snowed in on the CLUSTERIP target to some extent, and I am still
> figuring it out to some extent.
>
> One question that came to mind is its use of multicast MAC addresses. Is
> it really allowed to make use of them in the way that it is right now?
>
> From RFC 1812 section 3.3.2:
>
> ------
> A router MUST not believe any ARP reply that claims that the Link
> Layer address of another host or router is a broadcast or multicast
> address.
> ------
>
> As I understand it, this is exactly what the CLUSTERIP target does?
> Behaves as if a single host has a multicast address?
I'm not too familiar with the CLUSTERIP target, what behaviour
exactly are you refering to?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-25 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 12:05 RFC1812 and CLUSTERIP Oskar Andreasson
2006-10-25 22:26 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-10-26 11:41 ` Oskar Andreasson
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2006-11-30 15:36 Ben Grimm
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