Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > I tried to understand what this flag is for. As far as I can > > understand, windows will always reply to ARP requests. There's a > > registry entry for "gratuitous arp". So doesn't that imply IFF_NOARP > > will be set for all interfaces? > > You mean, it should *not* be set for all interface, don't you? > > PPP and SLIP interfaces usually don't do ARP, so I just set the > flag for them unconditionally.
Yes - it should *not* be set for all interfaces, except SLIP, PPP as you've previously mentioned. Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
