From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261271AbTHSSxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261152AbTHSSmf (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:42:35 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:45452 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272309AbTHSS2t (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:28:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:21:03 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Richard Underwood Cc: skraw@ithnet.com, willy@w.ods.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, 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: <20030819112103.373fce27.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB5D@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> References: <353568DCBAE06148B70767C1B1A93E625EAB5D@post.pc.aspectgroup.co.uk> 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 Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:05:13 +0100 Richard Underwood wrote: > The ARP request represents all FUTURE > packets being sent out that interface, not just the one single packet that > happened to kick of this ARP request. That's RIGHT! And by your own argument the source address in the ARP request IS IRRELEVANT and is to be ignored! Ok, I've lost 3 days of talking about ARP non-stop, I think I'll take a break from these threads for a while, it's getting to be a bit much.