Re: [RFC] ARP notify option

[Chris Friesen]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> +arp_notify - BOOLEAN
> +	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
> +	0 - (default): do nothing
> +	1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
> +	    or hardware address changes.

Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead?  I remember 
reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous 
requests but not gratuitous replies.

Chris
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