From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751014AbXCFVTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:19:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751349AbXCFVTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:19:18 -0500 Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:50038 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751014AbXCFVTR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:19:17 -0500 Message-ID: <45EDDA8F.5060106@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:07 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: David Miller , jeremy@goop.org, ak@muc.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, chrisw@sous-sol.org, zach@vmware.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ian.pratt@xensource.com, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Re: [RFC] ARP notify option References: <20070301164214.4a40bc59@freekitty> <45E7764A.7000100@goop.org> <20070301173030.754514ec@freekitty> <20070305.203536.92584097.davem@davemloft.net> <20070306105132.52c77491@freekitty> In-Reply-To: <20070306105132.52c77491@freekitty> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2007 21:18:11.0447 (UTC) FILETIME=[F1CA2070:01C76034] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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