David S. Miller wrote: > > Which nicely sums up the bug, really. > > Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send > packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses > assigned to it? > IP packets you mean? You don't? ;) It would depend on why you're doing it naturally. Mostly, I'd have thought that if a host doesn't have an IP number it doesn't get to use ARP. > Linux allows that, and in fact it's a useful feature. > > Consider MSG_DONTROUTE as well. > Irrelevant, ARP should stick to resolving Layer 2 issues, not be misused as some Layer 3 routeing protocol. > BTW, this ARP source address algorithm we use comes from > ipv6, it would be instructive to go and see why they do > things the way they do. > If you'd like to give me a reference, I'd be happy to look at the spec. It doesn't matter where you got the concept from, though - it's flawed. 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
