Re: Proxyarp is not working with kernel 2.2.0

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:14:32 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > (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

Thanks for posting this. Now I know that I've got about 10 routers that
can't be upgraded to 2.2.. Oh joy!

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