From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:28:47 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4181F12F.7060400@candelatech.com> References: <20041028234649.2d4ed3b8.akpm@osdl.org> <20041028234502.203b42c3.davem@davemloft.net> <4181ED02.1060501@candelatech.com> <20041029000651.6fd7360f.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mbm@alt.org Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20041029000651.6fd7360f.davem@davemloft.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700 > People hate it that when there's a decision of whether to > reply to something or not, we do whatever we can to reply > to packets we receive if we can find a way to do so. This > approache increases the likelyhood that two hosts can > communicate successfully. I need not remind people about > how much people dislike our default ARP behavior :-) but > it is done that way for the same reason. Note I was distictly kind enough not to bring it up either :) (I have already patched & hacked around that problem some years ago!) Since you finally accepted the arp fixup, maybe you'd at least let in a flag to change the default behaviour of downed interfaces too? Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com