From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:13:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r6iqffde.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071116.010548.94286711.davem@davemloft.net
>>>>> "DM" == David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>> Reply:
>> Opcode: reply (0x0002)
>> Sender HW: 00:AA.00:AA:00:AA
>> Sender IP: 192.168.0.1
>> Target HW: 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA
>> Target IP: 192.168.0.1
DM> And this is exactly a sensible response in my opinion.
Why send the reply at all? Sending a unicast packet with yourself as
destination MAC seems a bit useless. Do switches propagate it?
/Benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 11:40 [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 (was: Strange behavior in arp probe reply, bug or feature?) Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-15 15:40 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-11-15 21:40 ` Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-15 23:28 ` [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 David Miller
2007-11-16 8:30 ` Jonas Danielsson
2007-11-16 9:05 ` David Miller
2007-11-16 14:13 ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2007-11-16 19:26 ` Bill Fink
2007-11-17 22:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-11-19 13:06 ` [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 (was: Strange behavior in arp probe reply, bug or feature?) Alexey Kuznetsov
2007-11-20 5:16 ` Bill Fink
2007-11-20 7:49 ` [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 David Miller
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