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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Stuart Duncan <sety@perth.wni.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ARP's frustrating behavior
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:54:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B72EA75.6B06013B@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010808094513.00ab72c8@mailhost> <5.1.0.14.0.20010808103510.00aafbb0@mailhost>

Stuart Duncan wrote:
> 
> >Evidently, this is considered a feature.  However, to turn it off:
> >echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter
> 
> I've tried this and it doesn't work.  I understand that arp_filter uses
> routing tables to determine which interfaces should respond to ARP
> queries.  In my case, both interfaces are on the same network.

Interesting.  This works fine on 2.2.17.  It actually uses the ip address to
network device mapping, so that a NIC won't respond to arp requests for
addresses that are not assigned to that NIC.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-09 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-08  1:58 ARP's frustrating behavior Stuart Duncan
2001-08-08  2:15 ` Ben Greear
2001-08-08 11:57   ` Roland Kuhn
2001-08-08  2:38 ` Stuart Duncan
2001-08-08  2:54   ` Ben Greear
2001-08-09 19:54   ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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