Hy Folks... >>5.) Solution: Dirty Kernel-Patch >> With my skillful hands I wrote a dirty hack: >><patch> >>--- arp.c Fri Jan 13 16:44:06 2006 >>+++ arp.c.new Fri Jan 13 16:43:52 2006 >>@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ >> switch (IN_DEV_ARP_ANNOUNCE(in_dev)) { > > > Finding this variable in the kernel showed me that if you do: > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_announce D'OH! > Will get you what you want, in a user-mode only configuration. Be sure > to do that in the startup scripts as it will not be retained on boot. ;-) Reading before patching should be default behaviour. Sorry for the inconvinience :-( bye richard -- Richard Müller Geschäftsführer Technik team(ix) GmbH Powering Enterprise Linux Networks Südwestpark 35 90449 Nürnberg fon: +49 (911) 30999- 0 fax: +49 (911) 30999-99 mail: rm@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.teamix.de vcf: http://www.teamix.de/vcf/rm.vcf gpg: 296C 0BAF 8FC8 DCE2 99BD 5777 FA73 ECDC F9F1 8FF7 - : 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