If I was sure that noone ever wants the cross-ARPing that is happening now I
would prevent that also. It certainly screws up benchmarks and multi-adapter
parallelism.
I'll think about releasing a separate patch for that however I expect that the
developers working more often on the ARP and networking code will fix the real
problem. I'm not sure I will have the time to fix the code correctly.
Thanks
sdw
Erik Starbäck wrote:
> Hello!
> Sorry to bother you, but I have a small question...
>
> I applied the patch about wrong ARP-answers in
> <http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9910_02/msg01119.html>
> to 2.2.12-kernel before all patches from RedHat 6.1.
> (kernel-2.2.12-20.src.rpm).
>
> I connect eth0 and eth1 to the same subnet (on the same hub), and pinged
> eth0's IP-address and eth1's IP-address from a different computer
> which I later did "arp -n" on. I thought that the eth0's IP-address should
> correspond to eth0's MAC-address concistantly after your patch, but it
> doesn't :-( It can change after new ping. It behaves exactly as it did
> before I applied your patch, besides a little note i /var/log/messages.
>
> Perhaps I didn't understand what the patch should do... or I'm just
> stupid.
>
> Do you have any idea of how to solve my problem.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> /Erik S
>
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