Re: [gentoo-server] Disable ARP

[Jeff Rooney]

Both methods appear to work as I hoped. 

Ramon: you where exactly right, I was following some documentation sent 
over with some load balancers that I am experimenting with. Unfortunatly 
their tech staff didn't have any real options for us other than blocking 
the arp responses via ebtables. Not sure why I didn't think about using 
the dummy interface instead of the loopback...guess its just been that 
sort of day for me =)

Thanks again for your help Ramon and RijilV.

--
Jeff

Ramon van Alteren wrote:
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> Jeff Rooney wrote:
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>> This really can't be that difficult of a task, but I have to be doing
>> something wrong here. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> preup() {
>         /sbin/ifconfig dummy0 -arp;
>         return 0
>         }
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> config_dummy0=( "ipaddress" )
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> Works for us, need the dummy module / kernel option of course.
> Any reason you specifically need an lo interface or are you perhaps just
> following old loadbalancer instructions ?
>
> regards,
>
> Ramon
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