From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 14: 2: 8 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 14:02:06 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC55D37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f02M23Q44542; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:02:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:02:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix-Antoine?= Paradis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP question. In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010102023010.00a101f0@pop6.sympatico.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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