Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

From: Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 09:24:38 EDT

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    On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

    > Fix your routing tables ?

    and several other people have said similar things in the past.

    I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
    understand why there is no interesting in improving this
    behaviour.

    I have several hosts with multiple or dual-ported ethernet
    cards configured to different addresses on the same subnet.
    With both interfaces up, it's impossible to apply anti-martian
    rules to the interfaces, since it's hard to predict which card
    will answer an ARP request.

    Is it really so unreasonable to expect multiple interfaces on
    the same subnet to act independantly?

    Matthew.

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