Hmmm replying to myself ! > So as a general rule of thumb, I would recommend people to systematically call > "ip arp append table output to [network] oif [NIC] src [local_ip]" after an > "ip address add [local_ip] dev [NIC]". And yes, I agree that these are > standard tools, but I maintain that the default behaviour should be cleaner. In fact, not standard. 'ip arp' was brought by Julian Anastasov's iproute2-iparp-3 patch on top of iproute2. But it seems to do wonderful things. Cheers, Willy - : 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
