From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271214AbTHRFaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:30:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271223AbTHRFaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:30:13 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:37353 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271214AbTHRFaJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:30:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:22:58 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Willy Tarreau Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, carlosev@newipnet.com, lamont@scriptkiddie.org, davidsen@tmr.com, bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices Message-Id: <20030817222258.257694b9.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030817224849.GB734@alpha.home.local> References: <20030728213933.F81299@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200308171509570955.003E4FEC@192.168.128.16> <200308171516090038.0043F977@192.168.128.16> <1061127715.21885.35.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171555280781.0067FB36@192.168.128.16> <1061134091.21886.40.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171759540391.00AA8CAB@192.168.128.16> <1061137577.21885.50.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200308171827130739.00C3905F@192.168.128.16> <1061141045.21885.74.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030817224849.GB734@alpha.home.local> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:48:49 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > I have a case where this doesn't work And that's exactly what arpfilter is for. There are zero performance implications from using arpfilter too, if that is something people are worried about. Only ARP packets will go into the netfilter code, all other packet types will bypass netfilter entirely.