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Subject: Re: ARP hidden patch vs. arp ignore/announce
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> If there is currently no way to provide this functionality using
> arp_ignore/arp_annonce/arp_filter or their friends, why is this still a
> patch
> And is not integrated into the mainline kernel?

eh? if you keep reading the doc it'll explain that there is arptables in
the current kernels, which is like iptables for arp, and you can do very
finegrained control with that, including the ignore stuff...