David S. Miller wrote:

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:58 -0700

People hate it that when there's a decision of whether to
reply to something or not, we do whatever we can to reply
to packets we receive if we can find a way to do so.  This
approache increases the likelyhood that two hosts can
communicate successfully.  I need not remind people about
how much people dislike our default ARP behavior :-) but
it is done that way for the same reason.

Note I was distictly kind enough not to bring it up either :)
(I have already patched & hacked around that problem some years ago!)

Since you finally accepted the arp fixup, maybe you'd at least let
in a flag to change the default behaviour of downed interfaces too?

Ben

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Ben Greear [off-list ref]
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com