Re: Change proxy_arp to respond only for valid neighbours

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:44:05 +0200 (EET)
> Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > - the 'skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST' check has no semantic anymore,
> > the requestor should have same information no matter the packet
> > type. In all cases we add response delay for all requests, broadcast
> > or unicast, to help other authoritative hosts to reply before us.
>
> Do we really want to reply to all the garbage tcpdump causes us
> to capture?
>
> That is what the pkt_type is dealing with.  If we're in promiscuous
> mode, we'll hear ARP requests meant not for any of our devices, we
> should not proxy for them right?
Arp requests are always broadcasts, so promisc changes nothing,
right?


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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com