From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:12:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100119.021243.14718033.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201001190058.44495.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ja@ssi.bg, chavey@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: opurdila@ixiacom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60678 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755436Ab0ASKMd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:12:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201001190058.44495.opurdila@ixiacom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Octavian Purdila Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:58:44 +0200 > If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow > creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP. > > Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update > existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for > the first packet of a stream. > > This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache > entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache > entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN. > > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila Applied, thanks.