From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: BIG arp problem -- need help Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 14:06:09 GMT
Ruediger Helsch (ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de) wrote:
: My machine makes ARP requests, and in them it states its own IP-address
: as the broadcast address. This happens on 0.99.5. Something seems definitely
: broken.
It would appear that some of the ip addressing is broken in linux.
Specifically broadcasts and arp appear to not quite work how they should.
e.g. sending and icmp error in response to any address the machine dosn't
understand is not with in the spec.
They are in ip.c an icmp is send for an unknown address and ANY fragment.
These are best removed, since they can flood a busy net.
If the machine is putting a broadcast source address into an arp packet
then the receiving machine is apt to ignore it.