Re: ARP hidden patch vs. arp ignore/announce

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 05:18:20 EST



On Feb 13 2007 09:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> If there is currently no way to provide this functionality using
>> arp_ignore/arp_annonce/arp_filter or their friends, why is this still a
>> patch
>> And is not integrated into the mainline kernel?
>
>eh? if you keep reading the doc it'll explain that there is arptables in
>the current kernels, which is like iptables for arp, and you can do very
>finegrained control with that, including the ignore stuff...
>

One thing remains, arptables can't do ebtables's -j arpreply. (That would have
been too great - I could get rid of the extra br0 interface!)


Jan
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