Re: ARP responses broken!

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:07:12PM +0200, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > > Does arpfilter exist in 2.4 kernels?
> > > 
> > > Not yet, will be merged very soon. I can send you a patch if you need it urgently.
> > 
> > No I don't need it urgently.
> > I was asking because I had this problem before (router with two cards
> > against one physical subnet) and arpwatch complained that the router kept
> > switching MACaddresses all the time.
> 
> arpwatch is broken then.

Well it complained because sometimes the answer from one interface was
recieved first and sometimes it was the answer from the other interface
that was recieved first. But this is legal? I think I remember reading
something about it a while ago stating that it was legal.

/Martin

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