Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:38:00 +0100


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.

> 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), but
never added to 2.4.

-Andi
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