Re: Urgent Need: Ensure certain interfaces don't ARP reply, esp. lo:0

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:52:39 +0200

In article <37DC5A81.23E0BA34@lig.net> you wrote:
> Traced IFF_NOARP through the kernel and out to ifconfig. I'll try ifconfig ....
> -arp and see if that works.

it will stop a physical interface from answering, but not prevent the kernel
to answer for that address on other interfaces. So you need to set -arp on
the eth0 interface to keep it from responding.

Greetings
Bernd

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