Re: [Ebtables-devel] [PATCH] don't answer gratuitous arp

[Patrick M. <ka...@tr...>]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 22.03.2007 21:36, Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> 
>>Hi Patrick,
>>
>>The ebtables arpreply target should not answer gratuitous arp's as this
>>has no use and can give rise to problems when client machines
>>send gratuitous arp requests to check for ip conflicts, as reported by
>>Ivan Vladimirov.
>>The attached patch resolves this.
> 
> 
> Please don't apply this patch! It causes more problems than it solves.
> Before the patch, a client machine has a chance to find out that its
> IP conflicts with one handled by the arpreply target. After the patch,
> there will still be an IP conflict, but it is now impossible to find
> that out for the affected machine.


I have no opinion on this, please sort this out and let me know
whether I should apply it.