RE: ARP responses broken!

[Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS]

I tested this with kernel version 2.2.18 and arp_filter appeared to be
broken... I enabled it for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter,
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/arp_filter and
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/arp_filter and it did not change the arp
behavior at all.  I enabled hidden and it worked, is there a know problem
with this functionality?

	Sam Bingner
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Friesen [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:25 AM
To: Sampsa Ranta
Cc: linux-net; linux-kernel
Subject: Re: ARP responses broken!

Sampsa Ranta wrote:

> I have two interfaces that share same subnet, I call eth0 194.29.192.37
> and eth1 194.29.192.38. I have forwarding turned on, proxy arp is not
> neighter are redirects.
> 
> When I flush local neighbor table in other machine I use to observe the
> response and ping the router I get response like:
> 
> 23:38:25.278848 > arp who-has 194.29.192.38 tell 194.29.192.10
(0:50:da:82:ae:9f)
> 23:38:25.278988 < arp reply 194.29.192.38 is-at 0:1:2:dc:d2:64
(0:50:da:82:ae:9f)
> 23:38:25.279009 < arp reply 194.29.192.38 is-at 0:1:2:dc:d2:6c
(0:50:da:82:ae:9f)
> 
> The second one is the valid one, but both interfaces seem to answer to the
> broadcasted packet with their own ARP addresses.

This is the default Linux behaviour.  It can be turned off by running the
following command as root:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter

This ensures that interfaces will only respond to arp requests for IP
addresses
which are configured as belonging to that particular interface.

Chris

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