On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:07 -0600 "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > +arp_notify - BOOLEAN > > + Define mode for notification of address and device changes. > > + 0 - (default): do nothing > > + 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up > > + or hardware address changes. > > Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead? I remember > reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous > requests but not gratuitous replies. > > Chris I copied the ARP generation from other places that were doing gratuitous ARP already: Xen and irlan. Our local switch used REPLY's to do the same thing. One could imagine making it a ternary value and having 2 generate REQUEST's. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
