Re: fake MAC addresses and ARP

2007-04-18 Thread Alan Garfield
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:50 +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Some ideas: > > 1. Enable IFF_STATICARP on your interface to stop ARP sending out to > resolve the IP/MAC address tuple. I'll try this. > 2. Consider that you can deal with resolution in userland (RTF_RESOLVE) > but this involves cha

Re: fake MAC addresses and ARP

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Some ideas: 1. Enable IFF_STATICARP on your interface to stop ARP sending out to resolve the IP/MAC address tuple. 2. Consider that you can deal with resolution in userland (RTF_RESOLVE) but this involves changing the net's entry (route) in the FTE. You'd then process RTM_RESOLVE messages an

Re: fake MAC addresses and ARP

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Garfield
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:00 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2007-Apr-17 13:36:43 +1000, Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've got a little driver that communicates via a small buffer on the > >motherboard of a Sun Fire V20z to a built-in "service processor" which > >is running Linux. The

Re: fake MAC addresses and ARP

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Apr-17 13:36:43 +1000, Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a little driver that communicates via a small buffer on the >motherboard of a Sun Fire V20z to a built-in "service processor" which >is running Linux. The driver on both sides makes the buffer look like a >Ethernet in

fake MAC addresses and ARP

2007-04-16 Thread Alan Garfield
Hi all, I've got a small problem I'm hoping one of you highly skilled individuals might have the answer to. I've got a little driver that communicates via a small buffer on the motherboard of a Sun Fire V20z to a built-in "service processor" which is running Linux. The driver on both sides makes