em(4): sending ARP regardless of NOARP flag

[Jack Vogel]

Ya, except that's when the hardware 'eats' the arp that the OS sends, not
one
where it sends one the OS doesn't want :)

This is the first I've even heard of this option, but I can't see how its a
driver thing, either the stack sends an arp packet or it doesnt, right?

jack


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>wrote:

> Jack Vogel wrote:
>
>> I don't see how arping or not can be a driver problem, the driver just
>> sends
>> packets queued by the stack, there exists NO mechanism to communicate
>> that kind of thing down into the driver, -arp is something that must be
>> negotiated in the stack somewhere, as for it working with broadcom...
>> <shrugs>
>>
>>
> except for the system management stuff.
>