From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4427CE.1040203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105155047.13309.79610.stgit@firesoul.comx.local>
Le 05/01/2010 16:50, Jesper Dangaard Brouer a écrit :
> This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
> that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
> each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router. As
> described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
> communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.
>
Reading RFC 3069, I dont understand why it needs support on hosts themselves.
> This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
> interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
Could you give me an example of how it is used ?
Last time I played with proxy arp was 6 years ago :)
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-06 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 15:50 [net-next PATCH] net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 6:03 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-01-06 9:49 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 10:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-06 12:52 ` Mark Smith
2010-01-06 14:17 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 14:35 ` Mark Smith
2010-01-06 18:59 ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-01-07 8:59 ` David Miller
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