From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270283AbTHQPMI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:12:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270291AbTHQPMI (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:12:08 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:52356 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270283AbTHQPMG (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:12:06 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices In-Reply-To: <200308171555280781.0067FB36@192.168.128.16> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.5.19-20030610 ("Darts") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-xfs (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:12:03 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200308171555280781.0067FB36@192.168.128.16> you wrote: > So, if you have a router performing Proxy ARP... you don't need to > reply to the "bad" Linux ARP Request, right? Linux does not do bad requests, it does only do "bad" answers. > "An ARP request is discarded if the source IP address is not in the > same subnet." In the same subnet of what? Sure it is in the same subnet as the host, since it counts all its interfaces, wich is generally a good thing. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/