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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:17:27 -0700
From:      "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com>
To:        "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com>, <lab@gta.com>, <qingli@freebsd.org>, <steve@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ARP Changes
Message-ID:  <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A43046736E1@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com>
References:  <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A43046736DE@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com>

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I have committed the fix into the -current branch, svn r198111.
Please give it a try and I plan to MFC the patch into 8.0 release branch
in 3 days.

Thank you for the report.

-- Qing


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org on behalf of Li, Qing
Sent: Wed 10/14/2009 6:12 PM
To: lab@gta.com; qingli@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ARP Changes
=20

>
> 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

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