From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Pletka Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:47:45 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F43A631.50308@zurich.ibm.com> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB58@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> <20030819145403.GA3407@alpha.home.local> <20030819170751.2b92ba2e.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030819085717.56046afd.davem@redhat.com> <20030819185219.116fd259.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F43891E.9060204@zurich.ibm.com> <20030820175504.07658147.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, davem@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, willy@w.ods.org, richard@aspectgroup.co.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, 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: Stephan von Krawczynski Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:43:42 +0200 >Roman Pletka wrote: > > >>Please read carefully what you have quoted: >>It says: *An* implementation... and then goes on with a citation of RFC 826. >>A simple citation does not make a valid standard yet. It just refers to it >>as an example for this specific issue. That's all. > > >Sorry, but my reading is this "An implementation of the ( Address Resolution >Protocol (ARP) [LINK:2] ) ..." >Do you understand what I mean? > >If you insist on RFC-826 being only one of several (possible) ARP >implementations, can you then please name an RFC where ARP as a protocol is >clearly defined? I mean there must be one, or not? This is not the point. As has already been mentioned some days ago by davem RFC 826 explicitely states at the beginning that it is not the specification of an Internet Standard and thats what I meant. So let's stop spinning round on this. -- Roman