Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:00 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices |
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Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Okay, I'll show my ignorance and ask... the Documentation for arp_filter > says source routing must be used. Is there some flag I'm missing, or a way > to avoid having a rule per address, or is the 8 bit rule number larger in > 2.6, or ??? Or is having a lot of IPs on one machine not an imaginable > case?
Last response I got was that one would have to hack the netlink api to get a bigger index because the design (and rfc, unfortunately) describe the field as only 8 bits. I never did hear a response to my comment that this was inadequate in this age of vlans...
-- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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