Re: ARP response with link local IP, why not broadcast

2015-07-28 Thread Sebastian Fett
. Btw, I still wonder if I can partially keep the kernel from answering ARP packets? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Sebastian Fett db_ext...@gmx.de wrote: what is your use case? My problem ist a local network of audio devices. It is a valid possibility that two halfs of the setup are set

Re: ARP response with link local IP, why not broadcast

2015-07-22 Thread Sebastian Fett
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Sebastian Fett db_ext...@gmx.de wrote: Hello! According to RFC3927 every ARP packet (reply and request) should be sent as link layer broadcast as long as the sender IP is a link local address. (see chapter 2.5). Because broadcast replies are noisy and should

ARP response with link local IP, why not broadcast

2015-07-21 Thread Sebastian Fett
Hello! According to RFC3927 every ARP packet (reply and request) should be sent as link layer broadcast as long as the sender IP is a link local address. (see chapter 2.5). That functionality would help me a lot with a use case I have with our application. But it is not implemented in the