Hello,
On Mon, 15 May 2017, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Julian Anastasov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > It seems arp_accept value currently has influence on
> > the locktime for GARP requests. My understanding is that
> > locktime is used to ignore replies from proxy_arp
> > routers while the requested IP is present on the LAN
> > and replies immediately. IMHO, GARP requests should not
> > depend on locktime, even when arp_accept=0. For example:
>
> Yes, I believe so.
>
> I actually thought about introducing the patch that does just that:
> forcing override on garp, but then I was thinking, maybe there is some
> reason to still apply locktime rules to garps; f.e. if you have
> multiple nodes carrying the ip address and located on the same
> segment, maybe you want to pick the first that replies to you (in
> theory, it may be the node that is less loaded, or closer to us; but
> then, it's so fragile even if that was the intent...) Do you want me
> to post the patch, or will you cover it?
Feel free to post a patch for this, I see that you change
in another patch the is_garp value, so it seems the same logic
should be used twice.
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
