Enable CONFIG_ARPD in kernel configuration

[Dimitris Kazakos]

As per comment 3 in Bugzilla, it should be as you say.
If you have time to test it, that would be great for me and all people out
there
that use OpenNHRP. It should save A LOT of work not having to compile
the kernel all the time.
Thank you


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 08:42 AM, Dimitris Kazakos wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any chance enabling the CONFIG_ARPD flag in
> > the default Ubuntu kernel configuration,
> > since this change is really minor and has already been merged by other
> > distros like
> > Fedora/CentOS (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502844).
> >
> > It would make life much easier for people wanting to implement DMVPN
> > through OpenNHRP, which needs this
> > kernel option enabled in order to work properly.
> >
> > This setting has been there forever and I've never heard of it causing
> > any problems to anyone...
> >
> >
> >
>
> The help text for ARPD seems a bit disingenuous. The way I read it
> implies that CONFIG_ARPD defers all ARP to user space, regardless.
> However, from reading the bugzilla report I gather that CONFIG_ARPD
> defers ARP to user space _only_ when an ARP daemon is connected, but it
> otherwise behaves normally.
>
> Frankly, I'm not familiar enough with the neighbour code to be able to
> tell. I guess I can experiment with it. You generally know pretty quick
> if ARP isn't working.
>
> rtg
> --
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
>
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