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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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