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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: ebiederm@...ssion.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, denys@...p.net.lb, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipv4: arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification" From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:27:17 -0700 > This reverts commit 73ce7b01b4496a5fbf9caf63033c874be692333f. > > After discovering that we don't listen to gratuitious arps in 2.6.30 > I tracked the failure down to this commit. > > The patch makes absolutely no sense. RFC2131 RFC3927 and RFC5227. > are all in agreement that an arp request with sip == 0 should be used > for the probe (to prevent learning) and an arp request with sip == tip > should be used for the gratitous announcement that people can learn > from. > > It appears the author of the broken patch got those two cases confused > and modified the code to drop all gratuitous arp traffic. Ouch! > > Cc: stable@...nel.org > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric. To be honest I didn't want to apply that patch, but it seemed to match up with the RFC in question so I figured I had no arguments against it :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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