Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:56:11 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:02:20 +0100 Richard Underwood <richard@aspectgroup.co.uk> wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote: > > Under Linux, by default, IP addresses are owned by the system > > not by interfaces. This increases the likelyhood of successful > > communication on a subnet. > > > This is crap.
Nope, the RFCs allow this.
So this is where we must agree to disagree. Because host ownership of IP addresses is the basis for all of the arguments and it completely justifies Linux's ARP behavior on both sides. - 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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