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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mbm@alt.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:39:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029073927.GB15301@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029000651.6fd7360f.davem@davemloft.net>

> People hate it that when there's a decision of whether to
> reply to something or not, we do whatever we can to reply
> to packets we receive if we can find a way to do so.  This
> approache increases the likelyhood that two hosts can
> communicate successfully.  

I bet it's actually only a very small minority that is complaining
about this. The silent majority just sees a working network.

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-29  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-29  6:46 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases Andrew Morton
2004-10-29  6:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29  7:10   ` Ben Greear
2004-10-29  7:06     ` David S. Miller
2004-10-29  7:28       ` Ben Greear
2004-10-29  7:39       ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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