On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:37:42PM +0530, Mahesh.Pujara@lntinfotech.com wrote: Dear me, another indian non-english speaker who omits about half of the question, and all of the question-marks... > Hi, > Whether GARP protocol works only between the switches or even between a > switch and a end station. > GARP packets are given to the Bridge and then distributed to the GARP or > How the GARP packets > flow in the Linux stack. In IEEE 802.1d context the GARP _can_ work in between switch and end-station. One particularly usefull variant is joining/leaving ethernet multicast groups (GMRP), with which the end-station can inform the switching system about its interests. When an end-station does not announce these things to switch, the switch must send _all_ multicasts to that end-station.. Linux _kernel_ does not implement support for GARP in itself, but you can run user-space program to do it, altough such would not be very usefull in GMRP case. (I don't know about existence of any such programs.) > Mahesh /Matti Aarnio - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
