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From: Jonathan Layes <layes@loran.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:40:51 -0500 To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: bj0rn@blox.se, iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk Hi everyone, I have a preliminary version of arpd up on my web site and I'm hoping a few brave people can give it a try. If you are interested, please visit http://www.loran.com/~layes/arpd/ In a nutshell, arpd stores ARP entries in user-space and communicates with the kernel via the same message channel as kerneld. I started this small project because the current implementation of Linux's ARP mechanism does not cope well with large netmasks (> class c). If you want to convince yourself of this, set your netmask to something like 255.255.240.0 and try pinging every address in that space (no matter that the machines don't exist - Linux will still panic). With the growing popularity of huge switched networks on the same broadcast domain, netmasks like 255.255.240.0 are not terribly uncommon. This is my first experience with the kernel's networking code, so I hope I haven't made too many mistakes. jonathan
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