netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:12:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	opurdila@...acom.com
Cc:	ja@....bg, chavey@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with
 request type gratuitous ARP

From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:58:44 +0200

> If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow
> creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP.
> 
> Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update
> existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for
> the first packet of a stream.
> 
> This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache
> entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache
> entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>

Applied, thanks.
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