From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Change proxy_arp to respond only for valid neighbours Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:39:51 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4027FE27.9020102@candelatech.com> References: <20040209121926.6f016ebf.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Julian Anastasov , netdev@oss.sgi.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20040209121926.6f016ebf.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:44:05 +0200 (EET) > Julian Anastasov 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 Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com