On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:29:32PM -0600, Sandeep Sundaram wrote:
> understand that there are 2 ways of implementing TCP, namely, the Strong end
> and the Weak end Systems. Also, Linux implements the Weak end System where
> in if I have 2 or more cards and one of the cables is down, I can still
> receive packets addressed to that card thro the other cards that are up!
> Apparently this is not very helpful. Is there any way that I can prevent or
> change this ??!
I've seen problems which may be related and fixes got posted to linux-kernel
and rejected by the networking gurus.
Specifically, when we tried to implement loopback networking using 2
NICs on the same machine, Linux didn't work properly. ARP on NIC1's
IP address gave the MAC for NIC2! The patch was rejected because
it was claimed that the above situation isn't very common and an extra
check causes performance problem.
I'm just guessing that your problem may be related.
-Arun
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