From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 31 13:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B037B69D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:52:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA04435; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA28309; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200101312152.NAA28309@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c In-Reply-To: <200101312145.QAA68687@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Jan 31, 2001 04:45:03 pm" To: Garrett Wollman Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: net@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman writes: > > This seems a little funny then.. why then would you ever want not > > to use "proxy" keyword? That is, why would you expect to be able > > delete a real route using the arp command? > > Because you have a non-proxy (permanent or temporary) ARP cache entry > that you want to flush. I apologize for not getting this.. I'll try another question: why doesn't "arp -d x.y.z.w" just delete whatever ARP entry there is for x.y.z.w no matter what kind it is? -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message