Re: [BUG?] unwanted proxy arp in 2.4.19-pre10

Daniel Gryniewicz (dang@fprintf.net)
16 Jul 2002 16:04:50 -0400

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 18:32, Julian Anastasov wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> It seems you don't like the way ARP is replied in Linux. But
> note that ARP follows IP, i.e. Linux replies on each device where it
> is willing to accept IP for the same path. Such behaviour is caused by
> the way IP is set by default in RFC1812: Source Address Validation
> is disabled (rp_filter=0).
>

<heavily snipped>

Okay, I have no problem with this. What I have a problem with is Linux
sending an ARP request out an interface and using the address of
*another interface* as the tell address. This is just broken.

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