ARPs and other mysteries

Eddie Kohler kohler at aciri.org
Mon Aug 20 17:17:12 EDT 2001


Hey Robert,

Have you tried typing 'arp' to look at the system ARP cache?

Here is what I bet is happening. The network ARP reply looks like it came
from device 'eth3'. But the kernel wants to send packets out on device
'fake'. So the ARP reply it gets back is irrelevant. It wants an ARP reply
from 'fake'.

Possible solution: Make the kernel think the packets came from 'fake'. Do
this by supplying the DEVNAME argument to ToLinux: "ToLinux(fake)".

If this doesnt work, write back!
love,
ed



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