On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Sebastian Fett <db_ext...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello! > > According to RFC3927 every ARP packet (reply and request) should be sent as > link layer broadcast as long as the sender IP is a link local address. (see > chapter 2.5).
Because broadcast replies are noisy and should be avoided. if possible- it creates a broadcast flood that would wake up all receivers, and is especially undesirable in today's world, where bcast would wake up sleepy devices, or require other inefficient processes in a cloud env. See also https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nordmark-6man-dad-approaches-01.txt > That functionality would help me a lot with a use case I have with our > application. what is your use case? > > But it is not implemented in the kernel that way. > Does anyone know why? --Sowmini -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
