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Re: [Xen-devel] peth1: received packet with own address as source addres

To: Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] peth1: received packet with own address as source address
From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:13:07 -0500
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The no arp issue may be masking something else, you really want the
bridge to respond for arps for nodes behind it, otherwise all ports must
get flooded.
Would leaving arp on for the bridge really replying to arps for other devices on the bridge? Would that not be a different feature, like proxy arp? For some reason I think the bridge interface itself might be responding to an arp request, or possibly doing a reverse arp broadcast. Is this happening only on a ping, or will a tcp communication cause this, too?

-Andrew


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