Arping loopback question.

From: Scott Bisker (scott@e247inc.com)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 18:55:21 EST


Hello all.

Quick question here about an arping loopback adaptor. I've set lo to
noarp, and I've set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/hidden to 1. The
interface still arps for lo:0. I'm using Foundry server irons, and I
need to set the loopback interface in order for load balancing to work
properly.

After I clear the arp tables on my switches, and then ping the loopback,
I get the coresponding arp entry

sh arp
...
192.168.5.100 00:A0:CC:73:3F:4D
...

Here's the output from ifconfig.

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:73:3F:4D
          inet addr:192.168.5.90 Bcast:192.168.5.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:173056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:132075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:18

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING NOARP MTU:3924 Metric:1
          RX packets:33536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

lo:0 Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:192.168.5.100 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING NOARP MTU:3924 Metric:1

I'm using 2.2.18pre22. eth1 is NetGear Gig-E adapter compiled into the
kernel. eth0 is an eepro100 compiled into the kernel.

Any ideas here?

Thanks in advance.

-sb

Scott Bisker
Lead System Engineer
e24/7 Inc.

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