[Click] click and unreceived ARP responses ...

Indian Mogul indian_mogul at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 23 00:29:19 EST 2004


Hi Brian, 
           The problem u are facing is that linux
stack is not an ARP responder. If you run click in the
linux kernel so that it intercepts u r ARP packets
before the stack recvs it, I believe u will see the
prob solved. Remember, to use the Intel or Tulip NIC
cards.

-IM 
--- Brian Russell <morbius at paul.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:

> I am part of a class that is using click for the
> first time and we're all 
> having some problems with it that I hope someone
> will be helpful enough to 
> clarify.  We are writing a VLAN using click and my
> code uses ARPResponder 
> to return a phony MAC address for our contrived IP
> addressing scheme.  The 
> ARP request arrives and the ARPResponder sends out
> the proper (phony) MAC 
> address, but the kernel does not apparently receive
> the ARP resonse and 
> the data packets never get sent into the subnet.  At
> least, this is what 
> we think is happening.  We definitely know that the
> click program does not receive any data packets.
>                                                     
>                            
> I think this might be a problem with click or a
> problem of conflicting 
> configurations.  If thie latter is true, what must
> be adjusted and how 
> does it get adjusted?
>                                                     
>                            
> Thank you very much for your time.
>                                                     
>                            
>         BKR
> 
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