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Hello,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Ard van Breemen wrote:
> > Yes, your router is "good" just like a Linux router: the
> > ARP REPLY is send to the MAC address of the real server and not to
> > the VIP (192.168.16.2).
> Now you got me really curious... In what cases (or better: which
> level(2/)3 routers) does the router not comply to the arp rfc?
To be precise the router's behavior is expected, i.e. the
the reply is send to the source hardware address.
> I've seen the right arp-behaviour before, and with different operating
> systems: ncr-unix, and solaris. Sometime and company ago some mix up of
> the switches put some machines "physically" in the same net as me, but
> another subnet. I just added the routeing for the machines to my system,
> and ping -R ed them. And yes: broadcast arp request for the system,
> unicast arp reply directed to me from the system. Icmp echo request
> send to the system, and icmp-echo-reply received from the router :).
> It seemed the icmp-echo travelled from me, directly to the system, then
> to the systems default gateway, and a few routers more back to me :).
Yes, may be Linux is unique, i.e. every local address can
be announced. I had a chance to discuss this behavior on the linux-kernel
mail list but I still don't know why we can't always use the preferred
source address in the ARP requests. Currently, the other hosts are
usually confused from such requests with unknown addresses.
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> Ard van Breemen, T(elegraaf)E(lektronische)M(edia)
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Regards
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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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