From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271223AbTHRFgj (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271230AbTHRFgj (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:36:39 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:43753 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271223AbTHRFgh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:36:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:29:43 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: "Carlos Velasco" Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Message-Id: <20030817222943.2fdf9765.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200308171555280781.0067FB36@192.168.128.16> References: <20030728213933.F81299@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200308171509570955.003E4FEC@192.168.128.16> <200308171516090038.0043F977@192.168.128.16> <1061127715.21885.35.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171555280781.0067FB36@192.168.128.16> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:55:28 +0200 "Carlos Velasco" wrote: > And you can just use other OS and solve the problem Nobody hacking on Linux feels threatened by this. And if anything, it's the last thing that would make us change Linux to behave one way or another. That would be a stupid reason to make a change to the kernel, just because someone is shitting their pants on some mailing list endlessly about it. So please, go ahead, go use another OS if that suits your needs better, it certainly has no bearing on how we'll make Linux's ARP behave. But the one thing you can't do is accuse us of not providing the facility you need. Your only valid complaint is that the facility doesn't get configured in the way that you would like it to, and frankly my answer to that is "tough".