From: Sebastian Fett <db_extern@gmx.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ARP response with link local IP, why not broadcast
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:38:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55AE5958.3020009@gmx.de> (raw)
Hello!
According to RFC3927 every ARP packet (reply and request) should be sent
as link layer broadcast as long as the sender IP is a link local
address. (see chapter 2.5).
That functionality would help me a lot with a use case I have with our
application.
But it is not implemented in the kernel that way.
Does anyone know why?
Regards,
Sebastian
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-21 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-21 14:38 Sebastian Fett [this message]
2015-07-21 19:39 ` ARP response with link local IP, why not broadcast Sowmini Varadhan
2015-07-22 7:49 ` Sebastian Fett
2015-07-22 8:29 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-07-22 17:56 ` David Miller
[not found] <55B6432E.5070401@gmx.de>
2015-07-28 7:12 ` Sebastian Fett
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