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- Lines: 56
- Date:
2004-04-14 06:05:25.000000000 -0700
- Orig file:
linux-2.4.25/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
- Orig date:
2003-06-13 07:51:29.000000000 -0700
diff -urN linux-2.4.25/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt linux-2.4.26/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -481,6 +481,55 @@
conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise
+arp_announce - INTEGER
+ Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
+ source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
+ interface:
+ 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
+ 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
+ subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
+ hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
+ address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
+ configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
+ request we will check all our subnets that include the
+ target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
+ such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
+ address according to the rules for level 2.
+ 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
+ In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
+ and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
+ the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
+ for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
+ interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
+ local address is found we select the first local address
+ we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
+ with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
+ even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
+
+ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
+
+ Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
+ receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
+ the level announces more valid sender's information.
+
+arp_ignore - INTEGER
+ Define different modes for sending replies in response to
+ received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
+ 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
+ on any interface
+ 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
+ configured on the incoming interface
+ 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
+ configured on the incoming interface and both with the
+ sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
+ 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
+ only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
+ 4-7 - reserved
+ 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
+
+ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
+ when ARP request is received on the {interface}
+
tag - INTEGER
Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.
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