On 2008-Jun-27 22:59:56 +0200, Giulio Ferro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Jeremy wrote: >> The kernel should send out gratuitous ARP requests whenever you assign >> an address to an interface. You could confirm that this is happening >> by tcpdumping the interface whilst you add aliases. >> >I have bad news for you all: this doesn't seem to happen for alias >interfaces. I've just tried to replicate what happened days >ago. I've verified that only the base (non alias) interface sends >proper is-at messages. The aliases don't....
I'm not seeing this on physical interfaces. I can't immediately verify this on VLAN interfaces but could at work next week. Adding 192.168.123.253 as an alias on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (mid May): 08:21:39.899113 00:0f:b0:74:9c:a3 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: arp who-has 192.168.123.253 tell 192.168.123.253 Adding 192.168.123.253 as an alias on FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE: 08:24:21.077266 00:12:0e:20:2b:ad > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: arp who-has 192.168.123.253 tell 192.168.123.253 -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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