Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-26 Thread Andi Kleen
> 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? The ifup script in iproute2 does it in user land, but nobody uses it directly

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > > > dean gaudet wrote: > > > > hi... > > > > > > > > i ran into some problems recently which would have been avoided if my > > > > box > > > > did a gratuitous arp a

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-26 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: dean gaudet wrote: 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 f

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: dean gaudet wrote: 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 aliase

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-25 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:31 -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > but there's no gratuitous arp for any eth0:N aliased interfaces... and the > cisco ARP cache on this ISP router seems to be set to a long timeout. i > could reach eth0:N from local net, but couldn't get outside local net from > eth0:N. C

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-25 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > 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

Re: gratuitous arp

2006-11-25 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
dean gaudet wrote: 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 eit