Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:50:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Luigi Genoni <> | Subject | RE: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1 |
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How are you managing /dev/arpd? It seems that the kernel is not behaving correctly with this device
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> I have a 2.4 compatible arpd running, but with our > company being bought by a big US software company > I'm having trouble convincing management to allow > the GPL release. It's becoming very important so > I'm hopeful that I'll be successful shortly, but > until then I have to be quiet :) > > -- > Dana Lacoste - Linux Developer > Peregrine Systems - Ottawa, Canada > > (Note that Peregrine acquired Loran, and jlayes@loran.com > is an email address of a former employee, so i'm kind of > the relevant person to talk to for arpd stuff, because that > other address won't work :) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Luigi Genoni [mailto:kernel@Expansa.sns.it] > > Sent: January 15, 2002 10:03 > > To: Amit Gupta > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1 > > > > > > Latest kernel I saw working with arpd (user space daemon) I > > am manteining > > is 2.2.16, then from 2.4.4 (for 2.4 series), some changes were done to > > kernel so that the kernel does not talk correctly with the device > > /dev/arpd anymore. > > It is not the first time I write about this on lkml, but it > > seems none is > > interested in manteining the kernel space component for arpd support. > > I did some investigation, but the code for arpd support > > itself inside of > > the kernel seems to be ok, something else is wrong with neighour.c. > > > > So at less I can say the user space daemon works well on 2.2.16 I have > > around ;). > > > > Luigi > > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Amit Gupta wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am running 2.5.1 kernel on a 2 AMD processor system and > > have enable > > > routing messages, netlink and arpd support inside kernel as > > described in > > > arpd docs. > > > > > > Then after making 36 character devices, when I run arpd, > > it's starts up > > > but always keeps silent (strace) and the kernel also does > > not keep it's > > > 256 arp address limit. > > > > > > Pls help fix it, I need linux to be able to talk to more than 1024 > > > clients. > > > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > > > Amit > > > amit.gupta@amd.com > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > > linux-kernel" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > > linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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