> In article <19981231135534W.oe1kib@saturn>,
> kudielka@ieee.org (Klaus Kudielka) writes:
> > Hello,
> > making proxy arp entries for entire subnets doesn't work with 2.2.0-pre1.
> > I use that feature regularly with 2.0.
> > The net-tools-1.49 arp doesn't display any error message, but the entry
> > is not created.
>
> > A quick look at arp_req_set() in net/ipv4/arp.c:
>
> > ---
> > if (r->arp_flags&ATF_PUBL) {
> > u32 mask = ((struct sockaddr_in *) &r->arp_netmask)->sin_addr.s_addr;
> > if (mask && mask != 0xFFFFFFFF)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > ---
>
> > Ok, it seems that support has been dropped.
>
> > Question: WHY ???
>
> The feature was dropped during the ARP code rewrite because it was considered
> obscure enough to not warrant the special case code it needs. Back
> then nobody complained so it was dropped.
>
> Maybe the users should participate more in the development cycle...Now it is
> too late. If someone wants it seriously he should contribute a patch.
Ouch. I was using that feature too. I can probably do without it though.
Cheers,
- Jim
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