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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] ARP notify option
 
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] ARP notify option | 
 
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"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:07 -0600 | 
 
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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.
Chris
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