On 17/08/2003 at 16:28 Alan Cox wrote: >Linux doesn't issue "bad" requests. Linux will reply when it is >asked for an address that it owns, as per RFC826, unless you chose >to change the behaviour with things like arpfilter. We are not talking about ARP Replies, we are talking about ARP Requests. You can see the Richard post here, same issue I reported several weeks ago: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-net&m=106094924813337&w=2 == On eth0, we see: 11:23:55.650514 0:4:75:ca:c4:ef Broadcast arp 42: arp who-has 10.10.10.1 tell 212.xxx.yyy.9 == Linux is sending an ARP Request to a LAN where the source IP address of the packet has not any sense in that IP network. And, at least, 2 RFCs are stating that other devices should not reply to this packet. Currently know Cisco, Foundry; possibly others, and possibly others coming as ARP storms are not desired. 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
