Re: [BUG?] unwanted proxy arp in 2.4.19-pre10

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
14 Jul 2002 02:52:35 +0100


On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 20:19, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > Your suspicion and the reality don't match. The RFC's leave the
> > situation unclear and some OS's do either. Newer 2.4 has arpfilter which
> > can be used to control what actually occurs
>
> Can we at least have matching defaults for ipv4 and ipv6 ?? Having ipv6
> behave the opposite just isn't intuitive.

IPv6 doesn't have ARP it has neighbour discovery. The two are very
different in quite a few ways.

Alan

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