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From: "Bas Bloemsaat" <bloemsaa@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:11:59 +0200
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> The RFC I quoted (985) says the ARP packets generated by Linux
> should be dropped. Sure, the RFC isn't a standard, but there ARE plenty of
> implementations that obey it for perfectly valid security reasons.
Same goes for 1180. It it doesn't define a standard either, but makes
perfectly clear that any interface has it's own ARP, not one ARP for the
entire system.

Regards,
Bas