Re: RFC3927 ARP patch status?

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:36:54AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Anand Kumria wrote:
> >Hi David,
> >
> >Do you know the status of your RFC3927 ARP patch? Is it likely to make
> >it into a mainline kernel?
> >
> 
> That would be up to the kernel network maintainers.
> 
> There were some discussions about whether it made sense for the kernel 
> to support the behavior required by the RFC.  Other comments debated the 

Hmm, well the behaviour at the moment is certainly suboptimal. Any
compliant RFC3927 implementation has to generate an additional broadcast
ARP -- the kernel will send a directed response, which isn't enough.

> The patch is there.  I signed-off-by on it.
> 
> If you need RFC3927 compliance, you are free to apply the patch.  If the 
>  network maintainers are so inclined, they can do the necessary things 
> to get it into the mainline.

Okay, thanks.

Anand

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