From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:43:58 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030818074358.GA15633@alpha.home.local> References: <1061134091.21886.40.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171759540391.00AA8CAB@192.168.128.16> <1061137577.21885.50.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171827130739.00C3905F@192.168.128.16> <1061141045.21885.74.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030817224849.GB734@alpha.home.local> <20030817222258.257694b9.davem@redhat.com> <20030818065652.GA15098@alpha.home.local> <20030818000139.6964cd04.davem@redhat.com> <20030818072922.GB15098@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Willy Tarreau , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030818072922.GB15098@alpha.home.local> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hmmm replying to myself ! > So as a general rule of thumb, I would recommend people to systematically call > "ip arp append table output to [network] oif [NIC] src [local_ip]" after an > "ip address add [local_ip] dev [NIC]". And yes, I agree that these are > standard tools, but I maintain that the default behaviour should be cleaner. In fact, not standard. 'ip arp' was brought by Julian Anastasov's iproute2-iparp-3 patch on top of iproute2. But it seems to do wonderful things. Cheers, Willy