From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
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 14:43:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4394C2A9.6000606@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4394BF9E.90303@psc.edu>
John Heffner wrote:
> 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?
If ARP RFC's say it shouldn't :) (I don't know that it does) ARP is ARP,
accepting IPs is IP. The maze of twisty passages may be similar, but they are
distinct.
Is a MAC address a property of the host, or of the interface connected to the host?
rick jones
is on netdev, so no need for direct reply to my address...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 22:43 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
2005-12-05 22:43 ` Rick Jones [this message]
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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