On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:01, Herbert Xu wrote: > Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > There's at least two reasons why having it in the driver is preferable: > > - synchronizing sending the fake ARP request with when the device is > > operational -- you really want to make this well synchronized to keep > > unreachability as short as possible, especially when doing live > > migration > > - anybody but the guest might not know (all) the MAC addresses for which > > to send a fake ARP request > > Sure. However, what's there to stop you from doing this in user-space > inside the guest? I guess they don't trust user space. But the standard ipup script from iproute2 does this already so at least for modern distributions it should just work. -Andi
