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

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 03:51:34 EST


On 2000-05-04T11:42:52,
   Ville Nummela <vnummela@lut.fi> said:

> 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.

"hidden" also doesn't allow you to hide a a specific address on the interface
from ARP.

To arp or not to arp, that is the question...

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
    Development HA

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