SOLVED (was Re: Problem clarification (was: Problems with vlan + carp + alias))

[Steve Bertrand]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2008-Jun-26 22:06:11 +0200, Giulio Ferro <auryn at zirakzigil.org> wrote:
>> I guess what I could do was to "poison" their arp cache for each
>> address with a "is-at" message. Is there a way to force the sending
>> of these messages for all the addresses of an interface?
> 
> The kernel should send out gratuitous ARP requests whenever you assign
> an address to an interface.  You could confirm that this is happening
> by tcpdumping the interface whilst you add aliases.
> 
> Rummaging around in ports, you might find net/arping or net/p5-Net-ARP
> useful if you want to manually generate gratuitous ARP requests.

ping -S src_addr should do the trick too, however, that obviously 
doesn't scale very well, so it's probably only best to test with..

Steve