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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:02:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix-Antoine?= Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARP question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101021400490.38463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010102023010.00a101f0@pop6.sympatico.ca>

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Some more fuel...

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Félix-Antoine Paradis wrote:

> Hi,
>       When we do a "dmesg" on a 4.2-STABLE box, we get:
> 
> arp: 200.42.126.18 moved from 00:e0:7d:7b:53:f0 to 00:c0:df:f4:ac:05 on ed0

From personal experience, Linux has this nasty bad habit of broadcasting
ARPs on all interfaces.  For this reason multihomed Linux boxes should be
banned.

We got tired of it at my previous job and patched around it on the linux
machine.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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