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

Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:02:03 -0400


Of course this is a problem if I want arp for the 'native' address for eth0...

I found a solution, look at my followup..

sdw

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> 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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