Re: [PATCH 2/2] aliases: Don't call arpping to announce new IP addresses

Acked-by: Peter Müller peter.mueller@ipfire.org

I am not sure what the rationale is here, but we should probably not do this. Other hosts on the network will be able to update their ARP caches properly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org

src/misc-progs/setaliases.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/misc-progs/setaliases.c b/src/misc-progs/setaliases.c index 4d59aa0a8..a541a4fd2 100644 --- a/src/misc-progs/setaliases.c +++ b/src/misc-progs/setaliases.c @@ -188,11 +188,6 @@ int main(void) aliasip, red_netmask, intf, SCOPE); safe_system(command);

• // Send an ARP broadcast
  

• snprintf(command, STRING_SIZE-1,
  

• 		"/usr/sbin/arping -q -c 1 -w 1 -i %s -S %s %s",
  

• 		intf, aliasip, default_gateway);
  

• safe_system(command);
  

  alias++; } return 0;