Query regarding ARP request on a multi-homed system

wei zhang asuka.com at 163.com
Thu Jun 26 03:38:31 EDT 2014


At 2014-06-26 02:13:30, "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?


I'm not familiar with networking, but arp_announce and arp_ignore in 
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt maybe the answer!


>
>  Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
>Thanks,
>Chaitra
>
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