SOLVED (was Re: Problem clarification (was: Problems with vlan + carp + alias))

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Jun-26 22:06:11 +0200, Giulio Ferro <auryn at zirakzigil.org> wrote:
> I guess what I could do was to "poison" their arp cache for each
>address with a "is-at" message. Is there a way to force the sending
>of these messages for all the addresses of an interface?

The kernel should send out gratuitous ARP requests whenever you assign
an address to an interface.  You could confirm that this is happening
by tcpdumping the interface whilst you add aliases.

Rummaging around in ports, you might find net/arping or net/p5-Net-ARP
useful if you want to manually generate gratuitous ARP requests.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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