On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:39:16PM +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> ipv4_is_zeronet() checks if the first byte of the address is zero, to my
> knowledge there is no special funtion for checking for the unspecified
> address, as the case is trivial and independent of byte ordering.
> 

correct. Then the change you proposed is fine with me.

> It might make sense though to check for different types of addresses
> that are invalid for ARP (zeronet, loopback, multicast, etc.), but I
> wanted to keep the patch as simple as possible. If you think these
> should be filtered as well, I'll prepare a v2.

in distributed-arp-table.c:784 you can already find these checks ;)

I think at this point the patch is ok. Thanks a lot!

Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>


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