lagg Interfaces - don't do Gratuitous ARP?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Thu Sep 22 15:33:10 UTC 2016


On 22/09/2016 15:58, Ryan Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Steven Hartland 
> <killing at multiplay.co.uk <mailto:killing at multiplay.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     The disappointing thing about this is we had a solution, all be it
>     one not everyone liked, nearly a year ago now and yet here we are
>     still stuck with a broken lagg implementation in the tree.
>
>
> I would point out this 4-year-old thread in which a former co-worker 
> pointed the same issue with GARPs not being issued and proposed a fix 
> that was rejected (rightly) for being too much of a layer violation.  
> It's disappointing to me to see that somebody has fixed the issue in 
> exactly the way proposed in this thread, only to have the method that 
> was correct 4 years ago rejected today.
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2012-February/031328.html
>
That was indeed one of the thread I got inspiration from for the approach.


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