From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264311AbTLKCX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264314AbTLKCX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:23:56 -0500 Received: from [202.37.96.11] ([202.37.96.11]:52417 "EHLO gatekeeper.tait.co.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264311AbTLKCXu (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:23:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:24:40 +1300 From: Dmytro Bablinyuk Subject: How to publish arp info correctly? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3FD7D568.3050406@tait.co.nz> Organization: Tait Electronics Ltd MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If we declare an IP address to be published ie. arp -v -i eth0 -Ds 172.25.207.1 eth0 pub And if we do the ping 172.25.207.1 the tcpdump showing that arp request arrives but the box happily ignores it. There is not publishing occurs, though arp cache has: / # arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface tuna ether 00:04:75:E7:1B:93 C eth0 172.25.140.1 ether 08:00:20:7D:4D:9A C eth0 172.25.207.1 * * MP eth0 / # cat /proc/net/arp IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device 172.25.140.8 0x1 0x2 00:04:75:E7:1B:93 * eth0 172.25.207.1 0x1 0xc 00:00:00:00:00:00 * eth0 Could anybody please tell me is this the problem with the kernel we are using - 2.4.22 or something else. Thank you