David S. Miller wrote: > > In the ARP request we are using the source address in the packet we > are building for output. > Well, you shouldn't be! The ARP request represents all FUTURE packets being sent out that interface, not just the one single packet that happened to kick of this ARP request. > If ARP doesn't work using that source address, we can only assume IP > communication is not possible either. > That's clearly not a valid assumption. For a start it precludes IP routeing, but I've also demonstrated it not to be the case with a simple multi-homed server. Thanks, Richard - : 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
