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
next prev parent 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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