Re: IFA_F_NO_NDISC (for vrrp)

[Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jerome Etienne wrote:
> Why not provide a mechanism allowing to handle ARP request/reply from
> userspace ? (af_packet to sniff the reply from the network, a flag 
> to prevent the kernel from replying and a kind of CONFIG_ARPD to 
> send ARP request to userspace via netlink)

I think it is a very good solution.
This area just needs certain cleanup to allow all the decisions to be made in
user-space.  I'm not very familiar with "neighbour" code and I can't point to
the right places.

> It would be flexilbe and would satisfy the needs of my other project and
> vrrp. i think it would be enough for lvs too, correct ?

Best regards
                                        Andrey V.
                                        Savochkin