Re: [RFC PATCH 32/33] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> +
> +/** Send a packet on a net device to encourage switches to learn the
> + * MAC. We send a fake ARP request.
> + *
> + * @param dev device
> + * @return 0 on success, error code otherwise
> + */
> +static int send_fake_arp(struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	u32             src_ip, dst_ip;
> +
> +	dst_ip = INADDR_BROADCAST;
> +	src_ip = inet_select_addr(dev, dst_ip, RT_SCOPE_LINK);
> +
> +	/* No IP? Then nothing to do. */
> +	if (src_ip == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	skb = arp_create(ARPOP_REPLY, ETH_P_ARP,
> +			 dst_ip, dev, src_ip,
> +			 /*dst_hw*/ NULL, /*src_hw*/ NULL,
> +			 /*target_hw*/ dev->dev_addr);
> +	if (skb == NULL)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	return dev_queue_xmit(skb);
> +}

Hi,

Hmmm maybe it's me, but something bugs me if a NIC driver is going to
send IP level ARP packets... that just feels very very wrong and is a
blatant layering violation.... shouldn't the ifup/ifconfig scripts just
be fixed instead if this is critical behavior?

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven



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