Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:02:32PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hey, the world is not only Linux. Sometimes the people build > > clusters using different hardware and software. If your solution works > > for your setup we ca

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:02:32PM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote: > Hey, the world is not only Linux. Sometimes the people build > clusters using different hardware and software. If your solution works > for your setup we can't claim it is universal. It is a Linux News Group after all. So d

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On 24 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Not in Linux 2.2+, all addresses are replied. -arp only > > means "don't talk ARP", in our case we talk through eth0, so we don't > > want to stop it, right? > > why not? if you hard wire the MAC Address of your web servers to all other

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-24 Thread Pete Elton
> > In the 2.2 kernel, I could do the following: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/hidden > > > > The 2.4 kernel does not have these sysctl files any more. Why was > > this functionality taken out? or was it simply moved to another place > >

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> -arp will do that > Not in Linux 2.2+, all addresses are replied. -arp only > means "don't talk ARP", in our case we talk through eth0, so we don't > want to stop it, right? why not? if you hard wire the MAC Address of your web servers to all ot

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-24 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On 24 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > The problem is complex and can't be solved with ifconfig -arp > > why? Search for "arp" in the LVS mailing list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-virtual-server&r=1&w=2 This problem is analyzed from many perspectives. The solutio

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The problem is complex and can't be solved with ifconfig -arp why? > The needs for clusters with shared addresses include: > 1. block ARP replies for such addresses -arp will do that > 2. don't announce these addresses in the ARP probes

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On 22 Jan 2001, Pete Elton wrote: > In the 2.2 kernel, I could do the following: > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/hidden > > The 2.4 kernel does not have these sysctl files any more. Why was > this functionality taken out? or w

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > So in the setup I have, we have an ATM which gets all incoming requests > for the web site. And then we have 7 other machines that get the > requests passed onto them by the ATM. You can hardwire the ARP entry of your redirector to your Router. In that

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The snippet you posted doesn't describe what ClusterThingy exactly wants > to do with ARPs. Andi, it is simple. There are 3 machines on one net with the same IP Address. Two of them run a web server and one of them a packet redirector. The packet redir

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Pete Elton
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:21PM -0800, Pete Elton wrote: > > Any ideas on how I can turn off the arping? I guess the thing that I > > I explained it in my last mail how to do it using arpfilter. I do not claim > that it is an elegant solution. > It's probably not worse a hack than hidden

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:27:21PM -0800, Pete Elton wrote: > Any ideas on how I can turn off the arping? I guess the thing that I I explained it in my last mail how to do it using arpfilter. I do not claim that it is an elegant solution. It's probably not worse a hack than hidden is in the f

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Pete Elton
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:50:36PM -0800, Pete Elton wrote: > The snippet you posted doesn't describe what ClusterThingy exactly wants > to do with ARPs. Well I think the main difference in what you implemented and what the cluster server thing is doing (I think) is it sounds like you can arp

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:50:36PM -0800, Pete Elton wrote: > Is there something that the arp_filter can do that will mirror this > functionality? The modification that you made to the documentation > was pretty straight forward in that the arp_filter was BOOLEAN, so > I think I implemented it

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Pete Elton
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:50:27AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Another option is to ifconfig -arp the eth0 interface. I browsed through t > he > > IPv4 code and did not find any other goto out which can be configured besi > des > > the input FIB, which messing with is a bad thing s

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread NDias
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Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:50:27AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Another option is to ifconfig -arp the eth0 interface. I browsed through the > IPv4 code and did not find any other goto out which can be configured besides > the input FIB, which messing with is a bad thing since it wont accept th

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Now for the long version of the problem. I am using the TurboLinux > ClusterServer 6.0 product. This product uses what they refer to as > an advanced traffic manager that has the ip address of the web site > aliased to eth0. Thus this machine arps fo

Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread Pete Elton
I have searched the previous posts and have not found a solution to the problem that I am facing. The short problem is that I need a way to turn off arping for the lo interface in the 2.4.0 kernel. In the 2.2 kernel, I could do the following: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden echo