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From: "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com>
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>
> I know that arp has changed a lot in FreeBSD 8.  I am wondering if one
> change was by design?  In older versions of FreeBSD, if you ping a =
host
> that is on a local network but is down, after a few seconds ping =
displays:
>	ping: sendto: Host is down
>	ping: sendto: Host is down
>

  This turned out to be a regression bug. A wrong variable is used and
  the incomplete entry was timing out too fast. So the ARP probe =
continues
  indefinitely ...
 =20
>
> Using arp to display the arp table shows:
>
>	host.domain (x.x.x.x) at (incomplete) on em0 [ethernet]

  I wasn't returning incomplete entries, but now I am ...

  I have a patch for both issues, but I need to clean up the code
  because that wrong variable is used elsewhere in the same module.

  I should be able to commit a permanent fix by tomorrow.

  -- Qing