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

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:53:07 -0700

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:56:18 +0100
Richard Underwood <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 	Which nicely sums up the bug, really.

Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send
packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses
assigned to it?

Linux allows that, and in fact it's a useful feature.

Consider MSG_DONTROUTE as well.

BTW, this ARP source address algorithm we use comes from
ipv6, it would be instructive to go and see why they do
things the way they do.