Neil Horman wrote: > Back in 2.4 arp requests that were recevied by netpoll were processed in > netconsole_receive_skb, where they were responded to using the src mac of the > request sender. In the 2.6 kernel arp_reply is responsible for this function, > but instead of using the src mac address of the incomming request, the stored > mac address that was registered for the netconsole application is used. While > this is usually ok, it can lead to failures in netpoll in some situations > (specifically situations where a network may have two gateways, as arp requests > from one may be responded to using the mac address of the other). This patch > reverts the behavior to what we had in 2.4, in which all arp requests are sent > back using the src address of the request sender. > > Thanks & Regards > Neil > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Neil and I worked on this together, adding my ACK Acked-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
