On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 06:41 -0500, David Boyes wrote: > On 5/21/12 4:11 AM, "Ursula Braun" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >we reported this problem in Novell bugzilla 617373. Solution has been to > >introduce a SEND_GRATUITOUS_ARP config option. Its default is "no". > >Changing it to "yes" should trigger the sending of gratuitous ARPs. The > >config option is offered starting with sysconfig-0.71.30-0.10.1. > > When would this NOT be the correct behavior? Seems like the default should > be yes, given that that's the way ARP has worked for decades.
The solution with SEND_GRATUITOUS_ARP config option is provided by SUSE. They would have to change the default to "yes". We have never asked for this default change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
