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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