On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Matthew Soffen wrote:
we don't have a table like this. the details of getting things to work were
hashed out back in the very early days (go back to the earliest mailing list
archives). initially there was one method used, and it didn't work for all
devices, we identified a second method and the fact that it also didn't work for
all devices. We then tested that if we did both everything that people were
running into was handled, and it's worked ever since.
Just to add a little to this, The original way worked on Linux only.
The 2nd way worked on the BSD's and Solaris (and was also portable so I
believe it also works on Apple too).
by the two ways, I'm referring to the two varieties of gratuitous arp messages
(request and response), not to the ways that these messages are generated.
I'm fuzzy enough on the details that anyone who really cares (like the person
asking the question) should go back to the early archives to find the details.
David Lang
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