Query regarding ARP request on a multi-homed system

[ankur dwivedi]

In my guess the eth0 interface will not do anything and drop the packet.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Chaitra Ramaiah <linux.delve at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Have a doubt regarding ARP behavior in case of a multi-homed linux box.
>
>   Assume there are two interfaces eth0 and eth1 each configured with
> IPs belonging to differrent
>   subnets. Say IP1 is assigned to eth0 and IP2 to eth1. Now if an ARP
> request comes on eth0
>   for IP2, what is the behavior on Linux?
>
>   Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> Thanks,
> Chaitra
>
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