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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:30:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4394BF9E.90303@psc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4394BF11.2070205@hp.com>

Rick Jones wrote:
> That's the discussion related to things like the "Strong ES" (end 
> system) model right?  As such, isn't that discussing what _IP_ may do 
> rather than what ARP may do?  1122 doesn't say much about the 
> interfaces/MAC's that should be part of a given ARP reply.  ARP seems to 
> be RFC 826 and probably others, and the algorithm described in 826 
> doesn't seem to be specific on the topic of interfaces - at least not to 
> my really brief read.
> 
> rick jones

Yes, but if an interface will accept packets for a certain IP address, 
and will send packets with that IP address, is there any reason it can't 
ARP for that address?

   -John

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-05 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-02 19:53 [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign Al Boldi
2005-12-02 19:59 ` Pekka Savola
2005-12-02 20:08 ` Ben Greear
2005-12-02 20:38 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-02 22:49   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-10 18:51   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-12-02 22:40 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-03 13:46 ` Al Boldi
2005-12-03 18:33   ` Ben Greear
2005-12-03 20:25     ` Al Boldi
2005-12-05 14:01     ` John W. Linville
2005-12-05 14:20       ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 17:40       ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 17:59         ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 20:56           ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 22:19           ` John Heffner
2005-12-05 22:28             ` Rick Jones
2005-12-05 22:30               ` John Heffner [this message]
2005-12-05 22:43                 ` Rick Jones
2005-12-05 23:03                   ` John Heffner
2005-12-06  5:13                     ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 22:48             ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-05 22:56               ` John Heffner
2005-12-05 23:10                 ` Jeroen Massar
2005-12-06  5:18               ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 18:00         ` Ben Greear
2005-12-05 20:10           ` John W. Linville
2005-12-05 21:03           ` Marc Singer
2005-12-05 20:48       ` Al Boldi
2005-12-14 14:19 ` Al Boldi

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