[Click] click and unreceived ARP responses ...

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Nov 28 14:31:08 EST 2004


Hi Brian,

I think IM might be right about your problem, but I can't tell for sure from 
your description.  *Which* kernel doesn't receive the ARP response?  Do you 
have two machines here or one?

Eddie


Brian Russell 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?
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> Thank you very much for your time.
>                                                                                 
>         BKR
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