On Dec 14 2007 17:11, Gosney, JeremiX wrote: >Subject: ARP Bug? > >We've noticed the 2.6-based Linux systems in our test lab are >experiencing some "ARP flux"-like symptoms. > >The systems reply with eth0's hardware address to all ARP requests,
If you have the same subnet on multiple interfaces, only the first interface will be served. Case closed? >regardless of the IP being queried. Because of this, the system will >only send and receive packets on eth0; if eth0 is brought down, the >system is unreachable even though it still has several active >connections. With eth0 unplugged, none of the other interfaces are >reachable (this is presumably a side-effect caused by the switch ARP >cache.) Failover routes are defined in the routing table, but the system >still will not send/receive packets out those interfaces. > I am not sure ARP even uses the routing table. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
