From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] Arp announce (for Xen) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:59:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20070302115913.69204ac7@freekitty> References: <20070301232443.195603797@goop.org> <20070301232529.648076372@goop.org> <20070301164214.4a40bc59@freekitty> <45E7764A.7000100@goop.org> <20070301173030.754514ec@freekitty> <45E86D21.6080208@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pekka Savola , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:39272 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965136AbXCBT7T (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:59:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45E86D21.6080208@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:29:53 -0800 Ben Greear wrote: > Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> What about implementing the unused arp_announce flag on the inetdevice? > >> Something like the following. Totally untested... > >> > >> Looks like it either was there (and got removed) or was planned but > >> never implemented. > IN_DEV_ARP_ANNOUNCE is in 2.6.18, at least..used in arp_solicit in arp.c > > I really hope this didn't get removed because I find it very useful! > > But, you could certainly add another sysctl... > > Thanks, > Ben > yeah, something new like arp_notify? or arp_gratiutous There are other drivers that do their own arp, they need to be fixed. -- Stephen Hemminger