From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 28 4:31:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (unknown [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6C337B402 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:27:32 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20001128132927.00d8fa80@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:32:48 +0100 To: Dominick LaTrappe , "Oleg A. Paraschenko" From: mouss Subject: Re: static ARP tables Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <007201c05863$e65f8480$0701a8c0@dkn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org not sure, but netinet/if_ether.c says: ... if (rt->rt_expire) .... ... moved form ... else .... "arp: %6D attempts to modiy permanent entry for %s on %s%d\n" so I guess that one cannot modify a permanent entry regards, mouss At 18:37 27/11/00 -0500, Dominick LaTrappe wrote: >On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote: > > In FreeBSD 2.2.7 term 'permanent' means that kernel will not delete ARP > > entry after time of inactivity of workstation. Any host on network can > > change IP, and kernel will say 'arp: %s moved from %6D to %6D', even if > > IP/MAC is set to 'permanent'. > >Would someone from the FreeBSD project like to verify that this is the >expected behavior, and whether it applies to {3|4|5}.x too? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message