Re: PPP and Proxy-Arp

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:52:26 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:

> Hello!
>
> > Linux 2.1.70 now has new networking problems. The PPP Problem has
> > apparently been reported, however I have not found how how to fix it.
>
> What problem do you mean?
>
> > There are, however, additional problems.....
> >
> > (1) SOCK_PACKET does not fail, but writes an error to the debug log.
>
> It is not an error. It is warning.
>
> > ...Question... What replaces SOCK_PACKET?
>
> It should use (AF_PACKET,SOCK_DGRAM) rather than (AF_INET,SOCK_PACKET).
> Or (AF_PACKET,SOCK_RAW), if you want to make something weird
> with link layer.

Okay will do!

>
> > (2) Setting an arp table entry with a proxy flag now fails with:
> >
> > ioctl(SIOCSARP): Operation not supported on transport endpoint
>
> OPNOTSUPP is never returned by arp module.
> Aaah... Did you make this ioctl on packet socket? I see...
> Make it on AF_INET socket.
>
> Alexey Kuznetsov
>
Okay will do! Thanks.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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