From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>, dgibson@redhat.com, passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 9/9] arp/ndp: send gratuitous ARP / unsolicitated NA when MAC cache entry added
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:15:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aNshGSThHwRuvuGh@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250930002344.638eb34e@elisabeth>
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 12:23:44AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:08:27 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Instead, it advises sending ARP requests in order to announce a MAC to
> > the networm.
>
> Network, you meant network! The other plan is not public yet. :)
Turns out the only portable way to do ARP announcements is to infect
the other hosts and fix the bugs in their ARP handling. :)
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 1:13 [PATCH v9 0/9] Use true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 1/9] netlink: add subsciption on changes in NDP/ARP table Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 2:47 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 3:34 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 18:40 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-25 6:42 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 2/9] fwd: Add cache table for ARP/NDP contents Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 3:03 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 18:54 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 3/9] arp/ndp: respond with true MAC address of LAN local remote hosts Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 4/9] flow: add MAC address of LAN local remote hosts to flow Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 5/9] udp: forward external source MAC address through tap interface Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 6/9] tcp: " Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 7/9] tap: change signature of function tap_push_l2h() Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 8/9] icmp: let icmp use mac address from flowside structure Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 1:13 ` [PATCH v9 9/9] arp/ndp: send gratuitous ARP / unsolicitated NA when MAC cache entry added Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 3:22 ` David Gibson
2025-09-24 22:18 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-24 23:32 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-25 6:38 ` David Gibson
2025-09-25 12:48 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-26 0:47 ` David Gibson
2025-09-26 22:59 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-29 4:03 ` David Gibson
2025-09-25 6:36 ` David Gibson
2025-09-25 13:14 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-26 0:55 ` David Gibson
2025-09-26 23:05 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-29 4:04 ` David Gibson
2025-09-26 23:25 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-27 19:32 ` Jon Maloy
2025-09-29 4:08 ` David Gibson
2025-09-29 22:23 ` Stefano Brivio
2025-09-30 0:15 ` David Gibson [this message]
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