Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:54:36 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c Message-ID: <200101312154.QAA68762@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200101312152.NAA28309@curve.dellroad.org> References: <200101312145.QAA68687@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200101312152.NAA28309@curve.dellroad.org>
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<<On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:52:10 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> said: > 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? Because it doesn't know what kind is there. It could find out, but then you'd have a race condition, and in any case the system administrator is presumed to know what permanent ARP entries there are and of which sort. (In most cases it doesn't matter.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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