From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Carlos Velasco" Subject: Re: Bug? ARP with wrong src IP address Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:23:46 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200307252123460606.0555F082@192.168.128.16> References: <200307241728270476.0031BAB0@192.168.128.16> <20030724091007.68923845.davem@redhat.com> <200307252024190066.051F80CE@192.168.128.16> <20030725114634.73dc9e8d.davem@redhat.com> <200307252036050292.052A4780@192.168.128.16> <20030725115902.1d2f61b2.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ja@ssi.bg, bdschuym@pandora.be, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030725115902.1d2f61b2.davem@redhat.com> To: "David S. Miller" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 25/07/2003 at 11:59 David S. Miller wrote: >I'm talking about a netfilter module, and yes it does require >a tool for configuration which Bart DeSchuym has written, he >posted a link to his work earlier in these threads. Well, I consider the hiding patch to be a simplier and better approach to this strange behaviour in Linux (compared to other OS and systems) than needing to include and compile netfilter in the kernel. However I will take a look at it. I have searched and found that this is not the first time that this discussion has raised: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.0/1128.html Really I am 100% in accordance with this: === I still don't see why an address that is -=ASSIGNED TO AN INTERFACE=- should be responded to on a completely different interface... if we wanted the ip address to be assigned to the system, there should be a pseudo interface that will work on any of the interfaces attached. Why assign an address to an interface if it would work just the same if you assigned it to the loopback adapter? Why would you assign an address to the loopback adapter if you wanted it to be accessed from the world? === Is "hiding" incompatible with any other feature? Regards, Carlos Velasco