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

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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.
You might be interested in taking a look at:

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-cheshire-ipv4-acd

There has been some follow-up discussion on this in the thread 
starting at:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg00611.html

In particular, you may be interested in this comment about ARP 
request and ARP reply for gratuitous ARP:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg00669.html

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