Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote on Mon,  4 Jul 2005
at 10:23:56 +0200 in <20050704082356.GB1764@cs.uni-bonn.de>:


> > how to disable gratuitous arp*?!!!??
> 
> Yes, this is always on. The idea being that you better get a strong
> warning on the console immediately when you set an address that's already
> active on the network.
> 
> If you ask me, this is a good thing.

A good default, yes, but probably not something that should not be
removable. Imagine cases where you might otherwise have clipped the
transmit wire...

--jhawk