Subject: Re: AutoIP
To: None <ianzag@megasignal.ru>
From: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/13/2003 07:03:34
> Anyway, ATM i still havn't found any AutoIP implementation, just buzzes that 
> "Probably it was implemented somewhere in Linux/ARM land". So i'm thinking at 
> least to try to do it from the scratch. Trying to find out how to control ARP 
> level, better from userland. Any hints ? In general, IMO AutoIP's algs are 
> prety simple, just need to send and receive some/all ARP packets.

It will be more useful if it is designed to be called from DHCP enter/exit
hooks than as daemon.  Conflict detection is already implemented in kernel,
which should be modified.

Atsushi Onoe