Bug 45587

Summary:	/etc/ethers patch for net.eth0
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bash <bash83>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	agriffis, johnm
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	add arp entries to system cache

Description Bash 2004-03-24 04:22:19 UTC

So, /etc/ethers conatins hw_addr and ip (man ethers). My patch for net.eth0 add entries to ARP table at start (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Bash 2004-03-24 04:23:37 UTC

Created attachment 27909 [details, diff]
add arp entries to system cache

Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-26 18:02:21 UTC

Personally I think this should be a separate script, /etc/init.d/rarp, or something like that.  It doesn't really belong in net.eth0 since it's not specific to a certain interface.

Comment 3 Bash 2004-06-26 21:35:58 UTC

rarp - _revers_ arp (resolve ip by mac)
but this is only mac definition against mac-spoof, switch bugs and etc

Comment 4 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-01 17:53:36 UTC

It's *still* not right for net.eth0 because net.eth0 is a per-interface script.  
That said, the code looks fine, it just needs to be its own init script.

Comment 5 Bash 2004-09-12 18:48:21 UTC

Ok....
Mb in future I do it :/