hi... i ran into some problems recently which would have been avoided if my box did a gratuitous arp as it brought up all interfaces (the router took forever to timeout the ARP entries for interface aliases). so i set about looking to see why that wasn't happening.
i either missed it, or there's no code in the kernel to do it -- but that's cool, because it's easy enough to do from userland. i'm guessing this is the intention. however my debian and ubuntu boxes aren't doing grat arp and don't seem to have options to do it (i do know about using various other tools such as arping, send_arp, garp to do it manually). before i go opening bugs with the distribution folks, could someone chime in as to what is the recommended approach these days? did grat arp fall out of favour, or is it just a case of userland not keeping up? thanks -dean - 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
