On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 29, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Note that duplicate IPs can be very harmful and even cause loss of data. > > For > Come on, how often this happens? And it's disabled by default anyway. > The major effect of this patch is to waste time on almost every system > every time *any* interface is raised.
And DHCP clients should double-check their assigned address with ARP anyway, so it's duplicating this check on most systems. > It's concerning that more and more packages are adding useless scripts > to the if-*.d directories, apparently without thinking about the > consequences for firewalls with a large number of interfaces. Seems like this script really belongs in the examples directory. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
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