On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:21:04PM -0500, Mag2589 Walla wrote:
> No I have not yet handled the ARP problem.
> Could I use the following commands to hide the interface? I'm on kernel 2.6.19
>
> # Start the hiding interface functionality
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden
> # Hide all addresses for this interface
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<interface_name>/hidden
hidden is a very old way to do things. It was never merged into the
kernel, rather patched kernels were supplied. Around the time of 2.6.0 a
different approach, arp_announce/arp_ignore, was merged into the
kernel, and you should use that technique.
http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/Using_arp_announce/arp_ignore_to_disable_ARP
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