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Re: ProxyARP broken in 1.3.28?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Sep 26 18:19:08 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: Peter.Anvin@linux.org
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:55:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <hpa.306746a4.I.use.Linux@loki.yggdrasil.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Sep 26, 95 00:20:32 am
> I just upgraded one machine from 1.2.4 to 1.3.28, and apparently proxy
> ARP stopped working. I use dummy interfaces to support virtual hosts
Put the route in before the proxy arp is added. Linux now strictly follows
the RFC rules on proxy arp and will not proxy on the interface it would
itself try to route to that host via.
> Also, any ETA on ipalias in 1.3? It seems a much cleaner solution
> than proxy ARP/dummy device modules.
ipalias is slower, has more kernel overhead and isnt very important (Im sure
some people disagree). Certainly from a code point of view the dummy
introduces no overheads to anyone not using it, which is very good.
Alan
