Re: arp table - same mac address shows two ip addresses

[email protected] Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:16:40 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.lartc
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On 2018-10-16 22:31, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> (1.2.3.4 is an arbitrary replacement but doesn't affect the basic issue)  What is causing this?  The systems in question have only one interface per subnet but both systems have multiple NICs which are on the same subnets.  What I mean is this:  on both systems NIC1 connects to subnet 1, NIC2 to subnet 2 and so on for five NICs and different subnets.  The subnets do have different IP ranges (no overlap).  10.222.109.3 does happen to be on the same system as 1.2.3.4 but it doesn't have the same mac address and it is a physical interface.
> 
> Address             HWType   HWAddress           Flags  Mask   Iface
> 10.222.109.3     ether          bc:30:5b:a6:c4:bf  C                    eth9
> .
> .
> .
> 1.2.3.4               ether         bc:30:5b:a6:c4:bf  C                    eth9

On Linux (and many other OSes with IPv4 capability) an IPv4 unicast
address belongs to the entire host, not a specific network interface.
With "typical" settings, the kernel will willingly send ICMP redirects.
If it's annoying to see the addresses from "foreign" addresses show in
the MAC table, consider disabling send and receive of redirects on both
systems.

sysctl:
  net.ipv4.conf.*.accept_redirects
  net.ipv4.conf.*.send_redirects

Probably shouldn't do this if either of the hosts forwards IP packets
though [1], particularly if packets IP forward more than once.

[1] Usual caveat here: if you "know what you're doing" then disregard
this sentence.

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