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Date:      Sat, 23 Mar 1996 07:28:58 +0000 ()
From:      francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com>
To:        nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        rob@xs1.simplex.nl, nate@sri.MT.net, steve@edmweb.com, isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PPP (iijppp) proxy ARP bug?
Message-ID:  <199603230728.HAA03175@fyeung5.netific.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603221552.IAA18897@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 22, 96 08:52:14 am

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Greetings,

	Nate's fix also works for 2.0.5 release too.
	Let me know if anyone needs it. 

	Francis



> > | > I seem to have found a bug in iijppp. It doesn't always delete the ARP
> > | > entry when the connection is closed. Further connections on that IP
> > | > address don't work until I manually arp -d the entry. 
> > |
> > | This is a kernel bug which is fixed in -stable.  Upgrade your kernel
> > | sources to -stable and all will be well.
> > 
> > Can anyone upgrade the kernel sources of 2.1-RELEASE to 2.2-stable (I
> > assume you meant that) without expecting problems ?
> 
> It's actually 2.1-stable, and 2.2-current.  The next release of -stable
> will be 2.1.1, so it's much more like 2.1 than 2.2.
> 
> > And, is it really fixed, or do you mean that ugly hack about first
> > checking if there still is an old arp entry before setting up a new
> > one ?
> 
> Umm, it's really fixed, but it involves deleting the bogus entry.
> The system creating an unresolved entry is correct behavior, and
> deleting the unresolved entry when a valid entry is found is correct
> behavior.
> 
> This is done in the kernel though, so it's not a user-land hack to work
> around kernel bugs.
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
> 




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