Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:52:48 +0200 (CEST)
> Bas Bloemsaat <bloemsaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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> > I think this is unwanted behaviour.
>
> Not a bug.  This behavior is on purpose.
What is the benefit of having it work as it does currently
in the standard kernel?  I too was supprised to find it works
this way, but have since converted to use source-routes.

Interestingly, can only use 252 or so source routes because
the rfc for netlink only gives us an 8-bit identifier for the
route id, so this still breaks if you want to run lots of
vlans or something like that.

Ben

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