From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>, netdev@oss.sgi.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: Change proxy_arp to respond only for valid neighbours
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:39:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4027FE27.9020102@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040209121926.6f016ebf.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:44:05 +0200 (EET)
> Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> wrote:
>
>
>>- the 'skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST' check has no semantic anymore,
>>the requestor should have same information no matter the packet
>>type. In all cases we add response delay for all requests, broadcast
>>or unicast, to help other authoritative hosts to reply before us.
>
>
> Do we really want to reply to all the garbage tcpdump causes us
> to capture?
>
> That is what the pkt_type is dealing with. If we're in promiscuous
> mode, we'll hear ARP requests meant not for any of our devices, we
> should not proxy for them right?
Arp requests are always broadcasts, so promisc changes nothing,
right?
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-08 20:44 Change proxy_arp to respond only for valid neighbours Julian Anastasov
2004-02-08 21:14 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-08 21:38 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-08 22:44 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 6:08 ` Pekka Savola
2004-02-09 11:30 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 15:01 ` jamal
2004-02-09 22:23 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 22:50 ` jamal
2004-02-09 23:52 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-10 1:21 ` jamal
2004-02-10 9:44 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-10 10:48 ` jamal
2004-02-11 1:52 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-11 13:11 ` jamal
2004-02-11 14:32 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-12 4:48 ` jamal
2004-02-12 9:46 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-12 14:21 ` jamal
2004-02-12 19:37 ` kuznet
2004-02-13 0:34 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-11 13:40 ` jamal
2004-02-11 14:53 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 20:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-09 21:26 ` James Morris
2004-02-09 21:39 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-02-09 21:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-09 22:42 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 22:45 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-09 22:32 ` Julian Anastasov
2004-02-09 21:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-09 22:49 ` Julian Anastasov
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