netdev - Re: [RFC] arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification

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Message-ID: <m17hyo57u4.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:47:31 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification

Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb> writes:

> On Sunday 05 July 2009 00:57:32 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> How can that possibly be a correct network configuration?
>>
>> Eric
> It is a problem to have different networks, who doesn't communicate one with 
> each other, in same ethernet segment?
>
> Does it violate anything?

The point of the internet protocol is communications between networks.

Setting up a router to route traffic in and off of a network and not
telling it about one of the networks on your ethernet segment is
at the least very peculiar.

Eric

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