> We would like the default arp processing to allow use to
> control traffic into
> a box (thru a switch) by specifying which IP address certain
> processes send to.
> When each box sends 2 arp replies, things get messed up
> (unless we ignore
> these replys and make all our arp tables static).
If you have a switched subnet and machine A sends to interface 2 on machine B
(received that arp reply first) and machine B uses interface 1 to reply, the
switch will forget after some time about interface 2 of machine B and to
broadcast all the traffic to this destination (until machine B sends something
out of interface 2).
If you want to do loadsharing with the two interfaces, you will often end up
just using one (unless you use static arp).
I can only see problems with current behavior of Linux. Are there any
advantages?
-Tilo
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