From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:00 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F41979C.3070408@candelatech.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , Willy Tarreau , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Bill Davidsen In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen wrote: > Okay, I'll show my ignorance and ask... the Documentation for arp_filter > says source routing must be used. Is there some flag I'm missing, or a way > to avoid having a rule per address, or is the 8 bit rule number larger in > 2.6, or ??? Or is having a lot of IPs on one machine not an imaginable > case? Last response I got was that one would have to hack the netlink api to get a bigger index because the design (and rfc, unfortunately) describe the field as only 8 bits. I never did hear a response to my comment that this was inadequate in this age of vlans... -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com