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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: [RFC] arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:57:32 -0700
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Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb> writes:

> On Saturday 04 July 2009 18:00:58 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Problems occur when you have machines with ip addresses that you don't
>> have routes to.  How do machines with addresses without routes to them
>> get packets from machines in other subnets.
>>
>> Eric
> They are not supposed to communicate then with this Linux host.
> But Linux poisoning them by ARP replies.

How can that possibly be a correct network configuration?

Eric