Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 3657] New: downed interfaces acting as aliases

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> People hate it that when there's a decision of whether to
> reply to something or not, we do whatever we can to reply
> to packets we receive if we can find a way to do so.  This
> approache increases the likelyhood that two hosts can
> communicate successfully.  

I bet it's actually only a very small minority that is complaining
about this. The silent majority just sees a working network.

-Andi