Subject: Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

From: John Heffner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:56:54 -0500

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> John Heffner wrote:
> 
>>Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>
>>>I wonder how many RFC's it violates. An interface must only answer ARP's
>>>on the interface that it is configured on, not anything else.
>>
>>Not true.  See RFC 1122, section 3.3.4.  The standard leaves this
>>decision up to the implementation, for good reason.
> 
> 
> RFC1122 is a document about multicast. ARP is broadcast see the very old
>  RFC826/STD0037. Multicast didn't even work on much of the hardware from
> the times that that document was written.

???  RFC 1122 is the Hosts Requirements RFC.  It applies to any host 
implementing IP.  Maybe you're thinking of 1112?

   -John