In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I've written a patch to allow this behavior by adding a MAC address field to
> struct pneigh_entry, but it's mostly untested and rather in-elegant. I needed
> it to allow the sharing of a virtual MAC address between two different
> machines, and I got it to the point where it correctly replies to the ARP
> request and gives of the virtual MAC address. I'd would like to know however
> if this is a legitimate thing to have in the official kernel..
Current attitude is to do such proxy arp stuff in user mode. This includes
proxy arp for foreign addresses and for subnets.
BTW: what are u actually doing with your virtual mac address? In case of IP
you can share a virtual IP-Adress (see the tool called "fake").
Greetings
Bernd
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