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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