From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: billfink@mindspring.com
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, the.sator@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:49:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119.234943.214163033.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120001607.916f4537.billfink@mindspring.com>
From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:16:07 -0500
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
>
> > 2. What's about your suggestion, I thought about this and I am going to agree.
> >
> > Arguments, which convinced me are:
> >
> > - arping still works.
> > - any piece of reasonable software should work.
> > - if Windows understands DaD (is it really true? I cannot believe)
> > and it is unhappy about our responce and does not block use
> > of duplicate address only due to this, we _must_ accomodate ASAP.
> > - if we do,we have to use 0 protocol address, no choice.
>
> I agree the target protocol address should be 0 in this case.
Patches, someone :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 11:40 [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 (was: Strange behavior in arp probe reply, bug or feature?) Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-15 15:40 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-11-15 21:40 ` Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-15 23:28 ` [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 David Miller
2007-11-16 8:30 ` Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-16 9:05 ` David Miller
2007-11-16 14:13 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-11-16 19:26 ` Bill Fink
2007-11-17 22:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-19 13:06 ` [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 (was: Strange behavior in arp probe reply, bug or feature?) Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-11-20 5:16 ` Bill Fink
2007-11-20 7:49 ` David Miller [this message]
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