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Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] ipv4: add option to drop gratuitous ARP packets

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  4 Feb 2016 13:31:18 +0100

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be ARP proxies
> that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
> To prevent gratuitous ARP frames on the shared medium from being
> a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.
> 
> Enable this by providing an option called "drop_gratuitous_arp".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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