On 26/07/2003 at 18:48 S Ramesh wrote: >While recv a ARP req to its IP, a linux machine responds with a ARP >response, but not updating its ARP cache. > >Why is this behaviour? As per RFC if the ARP req is for the >interface's protocol address, it has to update the src protocol >address, source hardware address it in its ARP cache. This is a >violation of RFC right. >Any reasons for this behaviour? Ramesh, You should better subscribe to netdev@oss.sgi.com and discuss this problem there. http://lkml.org/faq/#related-lists Regards, Carlos Velasco - : 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
