| To: | Richard Underwood <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices |
| From: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:53:07 -0700 |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:56:18 +0100 Richard Underwood <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which nicely sums up the bug, really. Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses assigned to it? Linux allows that, and in fact it's a useful feature. Consider MSG_DONTROUTE as well. BTW, this ARP source address algorithm we use comes from ipv6, it would be instructive to go and see why they do things the way they do. |
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