Re: Proxyarp is not working with kernel 2.2.0

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 02:14:15 +0000 (GMT)

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> (more then half-year for sure; may be year). Since noone complained when this
> ugly hack was removed I think that there was so little users of this "feature"
> that chances to get this back is quite low...

It wasn't simply removed. Proxyarping subnets is very unusual , slows the
general code down and can be done in user space. That makes the entire kernel
case look dubious.

Alan

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