On 8/27/06, Ted Lemon <Ted Lemon nominum com> wrote:
On Aug 27, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Miles Lane wrote: > netstat -rn > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window > irtt Iface > 192.168.21.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 > 0 0 eth1 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 > 0 0 lo Okay, so that says to me that the Linux kernel, at least the one you're running, definitely does _not_ proxy ARP when it doesn't have a default route.
For what it's worth, I get this problem with Ubuntu's 6.06.1 LTS kernel, Fedora's latest development (Rawhide) kernel and my own custom- built kernels (2.6.18-rc4-mm3).