Bug#574522: clarification of proxy_arp settings

2010-03-26 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Kir and others in the openvz team There are some uncertainties on how to set the proxy_arp setting. I assume it is needed whenever the interface needs to announce its ip address to the outside network (i.e. when the host do not act as router), but I'm not 100% in which cases that is. Can you

Bug#574522: clarification of proxy_arp settings

2010-03-25 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
On 19 Mar 2010, at 06:49, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > However the documentation should also be better described. Suggestions > on this is highly welcome. Yes, and the primary question is when proxy_arp should be used. I've scouted the net and came up with the following: proxy_arp=0 -

Bug#574522: clarification of proxy_arp settings

2010-03-18 Thread Ola Lundqvist
severity 574522 minor thanks Hi Stefan Warning code removed. The remaining part of this bug is to update the documentation as well. This is the reason for lowering the priority. Best regards, // Ola On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:54:12PM +0100, Stefan Alfredsson wrote: > Package: vzctl > Version:

Bug#574522: clarification of proxy_arp settings

2010-03-18 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Stefan Yes you are right. This is indeed ambiguous on this point. This warning is also Debian specific, and should be simply removed. However the documentation should also be better described. Suggestions on this is highly welcome. Best regards, // Ola On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:54:12PM +01

Bug#574522: clarification of proxy_arp settings

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Package: vzctl Version: 3.0.23-8 There seems to be confusion about the setting of the sysctl proxy_arp key. On one hand, http://wiki.openvz.org/Quick_installation has net.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 0 But when starting a VE with vzctl, I get the error message vps-net_add WARNING: Function p