From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 31 13:55: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BAF37B6A9 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:54:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA68762; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:54:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:54:36 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200101312154.QAA68762@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Archie Cobbs Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c In-Reply-To: <200101312152.NAA28309@curve.dellroad.org> References: <200101312145.QAA68687@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200101312152.NAA28309@curve.dellroad.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.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