From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Joseph Southwell <joseph@ontoserve.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in arp handling 2.6.20
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:16:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E0A683.4030902@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50155211-787D-48AE-B9D8-7FD18406C8E3@ontoserve.com>
Joseph Southwell wrote:
> scenario
> Machine A
> eth0 is plugged into network.
> 192.168.1.201
> eth0:1
> 192.168.1.2
>
>
> Machine B
> eth1 is plugged into network.
> 192.168.1.101
> eth0 is not plugged into network. so I can test locally before
> switching the wire.
> 192.168.1.201
> eth0:1
> 192.168.1.2
>
> arp request for 192.168.1.2 is responded to by eth1 on machine B. That
> seems buggy to me.
Does it still do so if you set either "arp_ignore" or "arp_filter" (I
can never keep those two straight)? Could be the "weak-end-system"
design of the stack at work here. That allows any interface in the
system to respond to an ARP request for any of the IP's assigned to any
of the interfaces.
> worse, it continues to do it after unconfiguring
> eth0:1 and eth0.
As in simply marking it "down?"
rick jones
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2007-09-07 0:41 bug in arp handling 2.6.20 Joseph Southwell
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