From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org
Cc: opurdila@ixiacom.com, ja@ssi.bg, chavey@google.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:13:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100119.031343.44943528.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100119211818.28f48713@opy.nosense.org>
From: Mark Smith <lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:18:18 +1030
> ARP_ACCEPT / the /proc "arp_accept" file is really confusingly named -
> unless you knew better I doubt anybody would guess it's only referring
> to GARPs. Is there any chance of renaming it or symlinking a new name
> of something like "garp_accept" to the old one? Is this a significant
> enough behaviour change that it creates that opportunity?
It's been there forever, it's well documented, and creating
symlinks is messy.
So no.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 22:58 [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP Octavian Purdila
2010-01-18 23:39 ` Mark Smith
2010-01-19 10:11 ` David Miller
2010-01-19 10:48 ` Mark Smith
2010-01-19 11:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-19 10:12 ` David Miller
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