Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:01:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chris Leech <> | Subject | RE: Re: ARP (mis)behavior |
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I realize that this is not a terribly useful setup, but it was reported to me by a tester who thought it might be a driver bug of some sort. I guess what confuses me is if ARP should map an IP to any device on a host or to a specific device bound to that IP. What I'm hearing here is that the binding of an IP to a specific network interface is only used to determine routing of outgoing packets, and that any interface can accept incomming traffic for any IP assigned to the host.
What I had exepected to find was not for the requested IP in an ARP request to be compared against all IPs on the host, but instead only against any IPs bound to the interface that the packet was recieved on.
I did question some people about it, but perhaps I'll go do some testing on other OSs to see how they behave in this strange situation.
Thanks for the feedback,
Chris Leech christopher.leech@intel.com
------Original Message------ From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Err.. Do you, per chance, have both network cards running on the same network, with the same network address, and a netmask which will allow them to listen to the same ARP requests? If so, how could they do anything different than you describe?
Cheers, Dick Johnson **** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED **** Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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