From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Kubla Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:40:23 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200308181540.23709.dominik.kubla@sciobyte.com> References: <20030728213933.F81299@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20030818044419.0bc24d14.davem@redhat.com> <20030818143401.1352d158.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: willy@w.ods.org, 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: Stephan von Krawczynski , "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030818143401.1352d158.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Am Montag, 18. August 2003 14:34 schrieb Stephan von Krawczynski: > David, this is the wrong way round. Others'/my question was not about t= he > implementation and technical considerations leading to it (bottom up), = but > pure and simple (and top down): what is the _positive_ outcome of this > implementation compared to others? We are always talking of setups that > seem to be more complicated because of the current situation. So one wo= uld > expect that there are advantages that make up the discussed disadvantag= es. > And since I obviously don't have the knowledge to see them, I'd like to > learn and therefore ask: what are the advantages on the _users_ side? Very simple: no need for any IPMP crap on Linux. It just works. And that= puts=20 "answered" on all questions that were ever raised regarding that issue. Regards, Dominik --=20 ScioByte GmbH | ScioByte Information Technologies AG Fritz-Erler-Strasse 6 | Innere G=FCterstrasse 4 55129 Mainz (Germany) | 6304 Zug (Switzerland) Phone: +49 700 724 629 83 | Phone: +41 41 710 30 18 Fax: +49 700 724 629 84 | GnuPG: 1024D/717F16BB A384 F5F1 F566 5716 5485 27EF 3B00 C007 717F 16BB