Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0

David Miller
2007-11-20T07:51:47Z

From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:16:07 -0500

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
>
> > 2. What's about your suggestion, I thought about this and I am going to agree.
> >
> > Arguments, which convinced me are:
> >
> > - arping still works.
> > - any piece of reasonable software should work.
> > - if Windows understands DaD (is it really true? I cannot believe)
> > and it is unhappy about our responce and does not block use
> > of duplicate address only due to this, we _must_ accomodate ASAP.
> > - if we do,we have to use 0 protocol address, no choice.
>
> I agree the target protocol address should be 0 in this case.

Patches, someone :-)