Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:22:27 -0700

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:21:00 -0700
Ben Greear <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I never did hear a response to my comment that this
> was inadequate in this age of vlans...

Just define a rtnetlink attribute to extend the ID
number, that's all.  It's not hard work and it eliminates
the 8-bit limit.