Frank Louwers wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We recently stummed across a rather annoying bug when 2 nics are on
> the same network.
>
> Our situation is this: we have a server with 2 nics, each with a
> different IP on the same network, connected to the same switch. Let's
> assume eth0 has ip 1.2.3.1 and eth1 has 1.2.3.2, with a both with a
> netmask of 255.255.255.0.
>
> Now the strange thing is that traffic for 1.2.3.2 arrives at eth0 no
> matter what!
This is actually standards compliant behaviour, as silly as it sounds. However,
if you want stricter arp behaviour I *think* that the following will fix it. At
least it used to...
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter
If this is no longer correct I'd love to hear it.
Chris
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