For others, Avati is now working on a user-space gratuitous ARP daemon for mini BMCs that doesnt support GARPs. You will be able to provide a list of IP addresses that has to be GARP'd in the config file. If you want to understand more about GARP, follow these links... http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/ip_address_takeover.html http://wiki.ethereal.com/Gratuitous_20ARP
Avati is a very talented free software hacker with rich experience in networking. This is for Avati, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tcpdump -i eth1 host 192.168.1.60 -vv tcpdump: listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 18:30:12.969399 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:15.469184 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:17.969138 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:20.469463 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:22.969169 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:25.469242 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 18:30:27.969319 arp who-has 192.168.1.60 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.60 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking at the tcpdump for SR870BN4 (192.168.1.60) (Tiger4 Quad Itanium2 platform), Intel's Sahalee BMC (IPMI-1.5) uses "Request Based Gratuitous ARP". So in your initial release of garpd use this approach We will plan for "Response Based Gratuitous ARP" in the next release. -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Personal Blog [http://freedom.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
