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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: RFC1812 and CLUSTERIP
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:26:12 +0200
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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?