Device ARP'ing

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Terry Katz wrote:

> Hello,
>   I know that this has been brought up in the past ... but can someone
> refresh my memory as to why network devices will respond to arp requests,
> even with 'NOARP' set? (kernel 2.[23].x, via 'ifconfig <Dev> -arp', or 'ip
> link set up <dev> arp off')

I think the case here is that the DEVICE does not arp, it's address object
will be responded to from any interfaces which do arp.



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