IP4 address conservation method

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Wed Jun 5 16:11:20 UTC 2013


On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, William Herrin wrote:

> Both the router and host have to support sending and accepting invalid 
> ARP requests. Since the Linux kernel already mishandles arp by default, 
> you're probably begging for unexpected behavior. Double down on that if 
> the customer controls the server image.

Exactly what is wrong with the ARP answers and requests sent using 
local-proxy-arp?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se




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