RE: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1

[Dana Lacoste]

Right now it's fully working with 2.4.9, i'll put
2.4.17 on there and see what it does :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luigi Genoni [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: January 16, 2002 06:50
> To: Dana Lacoste
> Cc: Amit Gupta; [e-mail]
> Subject: RE: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1
> 
> 
> How are you managing /dev/arpd?
> It seems that the kernel is not behaving correctly with this device
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> 
> > I have a 2.4 compatible arpd running, but with our
> > company being bought by a big US software company
> > I'm having trouble convincing management to allow
> > the GPL release.  It's becoming very important so
> > I'm hopeful that I'll be successful shortly, but
> > until then I have to be quiet :)
> >
> > --
> > Dana Lacoste      - Linux Developer
> > Peregrine Systems - Ottawa, Canada
> >
> > (Note that Peregrine acquired Loran, and [e-mail]
> > is an email address of a former employee, so i'm kind of
> > the relevant person to talk to for arpd stuff, because that
> > other address won't work :)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luigi Genoni [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > Sent: January 15, 2002 10:03
> > > To: Amit Gupta
> > > Cc: [e-mail]
> > > Subject: Re: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1
> > >
> > >
> > > Latest  kernel I saw working with arpd (user space daemon) I
> > > am manteining
> > > is 2.2.16, then from 2.4.4 (for 2.4 series), some changes 
> were done to
> > > kernel so that the kernel does not talk correctly with the device
> > > /dev/arpd anymore.
> > > It is not the first time I write about this on lkml, but it
> > > seems none is
> > > interested in manteining the kernel space component for 
> arpd support.
> > > I did some investigation, but the code for arpd support
> > > itself inside of
> > > the kernel seems to be ok, something else is wrong with 
> neighour.c.
> > >
> > > So at less I can say the user space daemon works well on 
> 2.2.16 I have
> > > around ;).
> > >
> > > Luigi
> > >
> > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Amit Gupta wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I am running 2.5.1 kernel on a 2 AMD processor system and
> > > have enable
> > > > routing messages, netlink and arpd support inside kernel as
> > > described in
> > > > arpd docs.
> > > >
> > > > Then after making 36 character devices, when I run arpd,
> > > it's starts up
> > > > but always keeps silent (strace) and the kernel also does
> > > not keep it's
> > > > 256 arp address limit.
> > > >
> > > > Pls help fix it, I need linux to be able to talk to 
> more than 1024
> > > > clients.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in Advance.
> > > >
> > > > Amit
> > > > [e-mail]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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