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Re: Bug? ARP with wrong src IP address

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bug? ARP with wrong src IP address
From: "Carlos Velasco" <carlosev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:54:55 +0200
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On 24/07/2003 at 11:37 David S. Miller wrote:

>> Question: _What would be the implications of applying my patch or
>similar to do linux behave like other OS?
>
>You'll break things for people who depend upon the
>way Linux currently behaves.

Well, really the question is: What are these situations exactly? IMHO... the 
patch is only changing the src ip address for arp requests on a few situations.

Regards,
Carlos Velasco




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