Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:23:05 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c Message-ID: <200102012023.MAA31492@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200101312154.QAA68762@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Jan 31, 2001 04:54:36 pm"
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Garrett Wollman writes: > > 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.) OK.. could you provide a one sentence description that I can add to the man page? E.g. "... the proxy keyword is required when deleting published ARP entries" or whatever. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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