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

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:36:13 -0700

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:39:20 +0200
Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 2003-08-19T08:34:38,
>    "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]> said:
> 
> > There are two valid ways the RFCs allow systems to handle
> > IP addresses.
> > 
> > 1) IP addresses are owned by "the host"
> > 2) IP addresses are owned by "the interface"
> > 
> > Linux does #1, many systems do #2, both are correct.
> 
> Yes, both are "correct" in the sense that the RFC allows this
> interpretation. The _sensible_ interpretation for practical networking
> however is #2, and the only persons who seem to believe differently are
> those in charge of the Linux network code...

And, as Alan said, we provide a way for one to obtain your networking
religion of week.

Changing the default is not an option, that would undoubtedly
break things.