Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

[Pete Elton]

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:21PM -0800, Pete Elton wrote:
> > Any ideas on how I can turn off the arping?  I guess the thing that I 
> 
> I explained it in my last mail how to do it using arpfilter. I do not claim 
> that it is an elegant solution.
> It's probably not worse a hack than hidden is in the first place though.

I either missed that or did not understand it.  I am now rereading your
message....

Is that what you were referring to when you said
	only try to use policy routing hacks (not tested). e.g. tag all outgoing 
	packets with a specific fwmark that redirects them to a specific routing
	table which does the real routing, and put no routes into the normal 
	one used by arpfilter so that it doesnt' reply.

I am not familiar with policy routing.  Could you point me to some
docs I could read or maybe even give a trivial example to start me
on the right path?

> > am most curious about is how it ending up being removed from the kernel
> > in the first place.  It must have been a decision that someone made.
> > Either, we don't need that any more since we can do it this way, or
> > we'll take it out since nobody uses it.
> 
> It was only submitted to 2.2 a few months ago (=years after 2.3 branched), b
>     ut 
> never added to 2.4. 

Well that at least makes sense as to why it's not in there.

Thank you for all of your help.

Pete