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

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:43:58 +0200
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Hmmm replying to myself !

> So as a general rule of thumb, I would recommend people to systematically call
> "ip arp append table output to [network] oif [NIC] src [local_ip]" after an
> "ip address add [local_ip] dev [NIC]". And yes, I agree that these are
> standard tools, but I maintain that the default behaviour should be cleaner.

In fact, not standard. 'ip arp' was brought by Julian Anastasov's
iproute2-iparp-3 patch on top of iproute2. But it seems to do wonderful things.

Cheers,
Willy


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