On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 14:47, kkonaka@mac.com wrote: > just guessing but net/ipv4/arp.c arp_process() has some lines > like these: > > #ifdef CONFIG_IP_ACCEPT_UNSOLICITED_ARP > /* Unsolicited ARP is not accepted by default. > It is possible, that this option should be enabled for some > devices (strip is candidate) > */ > if (n == NULL && > arp->ar_op == __constant_htons(ARPOP_REPLY) && > inet_addr_type(sip) == RTN_UNICAST) > n = __neigh_lookup(&arp_tbl, &sip, dev, -1); > #endif > > - does it help? I hadn't looked at the code at the time of the email, but it seems obvious that this is the answer. Thank you for looking where I should have in the first place. respectfully, -Aaron - : 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