Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 14:16, Carlos Velasco wrote:
> So,
> 
> According to RFC 1027:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1027.txt

Proxy ARP only.

>    A.3.  ARP datagram
> 
>       An ARP reply is discarded if the destination IP address does not
>       match the local host address.  

Linux counts all the IP addresses it has as being local host address.

And Linux btw has arpfilter which can do far more than just imitate your
favourite network religion of the week

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