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From: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>
To: Michael Poole <poole@troilus.org>
Cc: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arp problem
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:03:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010724160326.G31198@intern.kubla.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107240208460.10839-100000@fogarty.jakma.org> <20010724140916.F31198@intern.kubla.de> <87k80y8qsz.fsf@cj46222-a.reston1.va.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <87k80y8qsz.fsf@cj46222-a.reston1.va.home.com>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:17:16AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but does
>   cat 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/send_redirects
> help the problem any (for the proper value of "eth0")?  A college
> roommate of mine once had the same problem, and clearing
> send_redirects for the interface fixed it for him.
> 
> -- Michael Poole

It may be a work-around, but it does not solve the problem.
There are legitimate uses of redirects and simply disabling them
might cause different problems.  The correct solution is to have
the kernel treat aliased interfaces the same as interfaces on
different networking cards.

Dominik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-24 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-23 19:46 Arp problem Sourav Sen
2001-07-23 20:13 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-24  1:03   ` Ben Greear
2001-07-24  1:10     ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-24  1:19       ` Ben Greear
2001-07-24  1:29         ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-24  1:24       ` Matthew Dharm
2001-07-24 12:09       ` Dominik Kubla
2001-07-24 12:17         ` Michael Poole
2001-07-24 14:03           ` Dominik Kubla [this message]
2001-07-24 14:15           ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-24 14:20         ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-24 16:34         ` Alan Cox
2001-07-24 20:31           ` Paul Jakma
2001-07-24 23:11             ` Alan Cox
2001-07-25 10:40               ` Dominik Kubla
2001-07-26  6:54                 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2001-07-24  1:13     ` Chris Friesen

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