On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:01, Herbert Xu wrote: > Christian Limpach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There's at least two reasons why having it in the driver is preferable: > > - synchronizing sending the fake ARP request with when the device is > > operational -- you really want to make this well synchronized to keep > > unreachability as short as possible, especially when doing live > > migration > > - anybody but the guest might not know (all) the MAC addresses for which > > to send a fake ARP request > > Sure. However, what's there to stop you from doing this in user-space > inside the guest?
I guess they don't trust user space. But the standard ipup script from iproute2 does this already so at least for modern distributions it should just work. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
