Re: question on faq 4.18

[Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Judd Bourgeois wrote:

> I'm not seeing the ARP problem.  The dummy interfaces are 
> all listed as NOARP in ifconfig
linux from 2.2.x on doesn't honor the noarp flag for any 
devices, dummy0 included.
> and I haven't tweaked any of the arp settings in /proc, so 
> I think this works ok.
you're just lucky

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.arp_problem.html#vip_devices

I had LVS's working for quite a while without handling the 
arp problem. I was just lucky that the router got the arp 
reply from the director all the time.
Joe
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