Re: ARP responses broken!

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:26:19PM -0600, Eric Weigle wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing
> and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic
> in a multi-nic machine fails and you don't know right away).
> 
> There are three 'solutions' I know of:
> 
>   * In recent 2.2 kernels, it was possible to fix this by doing the following as

Or use arpfilter in even newer 2.2 kernels; which filters based on the routing
table. "hidden" is quite a sledgehammer which often does more harm than good.

-Andi