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

From: Ville Nummela (vnummela@lut.fi)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 03:42:52 EST

Andi Kleen wrote:

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

>From the kernel documentation:

hidden
   Hide addresses attached to this device from another devices.
   Such addresses will never be selected by source address autoselection
   mechanism, host does not answer broadcast ARP requests for them,

That kind of behavior is not what we want when implementing Mobile IP. We do
not want to disable source address autoselection, just ARP. 

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