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Re: IP4 address conservation method


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:11:20 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, William Herrin wrote:

Both the router and host have to support sending and accepting invalid ARP requests. Since the Linux kernel already mishandles arp by default, you're probably begging for unexpected behavior. Double down on that if the customer controls the server image.

Exactly what is wrong with the ARP answers and requests sent using local-proxy-arp?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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