On Thursday 06 January 2005 18:53, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello, > > Have a look at /proc/sys/net/conf/XXX/arp_filter : > > > arp_filter - BOOLEAN > 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same > subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered > based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from > the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source > based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control > of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request. > > 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses > from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes > sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication. > IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by > particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load- > balancing, does this behaviour cause problems. > > Regards, > Paul I tried that actually, didn't change a thing. Jan -- Beware of computerized fortune-tellers! - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
