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From: Ming-Ching Tiew <mctiew@yahoo•com>
To: Net Dev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux arp flux problem
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:18:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <382005.89009.qm@web31503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <908408.23515.qm@web31502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Ming-Ching Tiew <mctiew@yahoo•com> wrote:

> From: Ming-Ching Tiew <mctiew@yahoo•com>
> Subject: Linux arp flux problem
> To: "Net Dev" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
> Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 3:16 AM
> 
> The following link explains the Linux arp flux problem
> pretty well, and I myself have been burnt badly by a life
> site where the "arp_filter" does not help at all.
> 
>          http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-arp.html
> 
> And I tested the kernel patch by Julian Anastasov, and it
> works 100% reliably :-
> 
>          http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#hidden
> 
> My question is the patches has been around for many years,
> why has it not been included into the kernel ? Is it that
> Linux is supposed to have this "side effects" of arp linux
> on purpose ?
> 

May I propose that the said patch ( http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#hidden )
be accepted into the kernel. And if it does not qualify, may I know why ?

Thank you.


      

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12  3:16 Linux arp flux problem Ming-Ching Tiew
2010-04-13  2:18 ` Ming-Ching Tiew [this message]
2010-04-13  8:26 ` Julian Anastasov

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