Re: Is Linux 2.2+ proxy ARP broken?

From: Tuomas Heino (iheino@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 03:48:43 EST


On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote:

> It's not supported, the underlying data structures do not have a field for
> the supplied MAC address. What the code does is try to match the supplied MAC
> address against the MAC addresses of all interfaces, then store a pointer to
> the matching interface structure in the proxy arp structure.

I think there was a thread about this just before the 2.2 release...
but... was support dropped for things like
arp -Ds 10.1.20.128 eth0 netmask 255.255.255.128 pub
too? (inserting 125-128 host entries would be rather boring/inefficient)

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