[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] ARP notify option

["Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> +arp_notify - BOOLEAN
> +       Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
> +       0 - (default): do nothing
> +       1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
> +           or hardware address changes.
Did you consider using gratuitous arp requests instead?  I remember 
reading about some hardware that updated its arp cache on gratuitous 
requests but not gratuitous replies.
Chris

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