ARP behavior in FreeBSD vs Linux

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:49:28AM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On FreeBSD, we solve this issue by assigning the IPs to lo0. For
> Linux, this approach works equally well and is what the Linux Virtual
> Server documentation recommends.

Oops.. the docs I read were for Linux 2.0. The docs for 2.2 recommend
flipping some 'hidden' flag in /proc/sys/net/ipv4; this suggests that
Linux responds to ARP even for lo0 by default.

So indeed, Linux requires -extra- care to get a DR loadbalanced
situation right..

Cheers, Peter
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