Re: [PATCH v9 9/9] arp/ndp: send gratuitous ARP / unsolicitated NA when MAC cache entry added

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 12:23:44AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:

On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:08:27 +1000 David Gibson wrote:

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Instead, it advises sending ARP requests in order to announce a MAC to the networm.

Network, you meant network! The other plan is not public yet. :)

Turns out the only portable way to do ARP announcements is to infect the other hosts and fix the bugs in their ARP handling. :) -- David Gibson (he or they) | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you, not the other way | around. http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson