Re: Can we make NM automatically handle the need for proxy arp?

["Miles Lane" <miles lane gmail com>]

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).