On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:07 -0600
"Chris Friesen" [off-list ref] wrote:

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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+arp_notify - BOOLEAN
+	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
+	0 - (default): do nothing
+	1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
+	    or hardware address changes.

Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead?  I remember 
reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous 
requests but not gratuitous replies.

Chris

I copied the ARP generation from other places that were doing
gratuitous ARP already:  Xen and irlan.
Our local switch used REPLY's to do the same thing.

One could imagine making it a ternary value and having 2 generate
REQUEST's.


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Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref]