Subject: Re: [RFC] ARP notify option

From: "Chris Friesen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:07 -0600

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> +arp_notify - BOOLEAN
> +	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
> +	0 - (default): do nothing
> +	1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
> +	    or hardware address changes.

Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead?  I remember 
reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous 
requests but not gratuitous replies.

Chris