On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:07:27AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:45:53 -0500 > > > 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. > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Applied, and I'll push this to -stable, thanks Neil. > > But please submit networking patches next time to > netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, most of the networking developers did not see > this patch because you sent it to the user help list (linux-net) > instead of the developer list (netdev). > My bad, wasn't thinking. Thanks guys! Neil > Thanks again. -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 - http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ - 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
