Re: [RFC] ARP notify option

Chris Friesen
2007-03-06T21:19:18Z

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> +arp_notify - BOOLEAN
> + Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
> + 0 - (default): do nothing
> + 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
> + or hardware address changes.

Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead? I remember
reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous
requests but not gratuitous replies.

Chris