Re: [PATCH] arp, kernel 2.2.15 and 2.3.99-pre6

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 04:32:16 EST


Ville Nummela <vnummela@lut.fi> writes:

> This is a patch I've written in order to allow me to dynamically
> enable/disable sending replies to arp requests on a device. It adds a
> send_replies -entry to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/<device>, and if it's 1
> then sending any arp replies is disabled.
> This is basically intended for applications like Mobile IP which need to
> enable/disable ARP when leaving/returning home network.
> The stable version has been used for several months on some laptops, the
> development version I just compiled and tested once.
> Any feedback is of course welcome.

2.2 already has this option, it is called conf/*/hidden
2.3 will get it too hopefully.

-Andi

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