On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Chris Friesen 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. You might be interested in taking a look at: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-cheshire-ipv4-acd There has been some follow-up discussion on this in the thread starting at: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg00611.html In particular, you may be interested in this comment about ARP request and ARP reply for gratuitous ARP: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg00669.html -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
