From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 1 12:23:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A0137B699 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA11225; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:23:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA31492; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200102012023.MAA31492@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c In-Reply-To: <200101312154.QAA68762@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Jan 31, 2001 04:54:36 pm" To: Garrett Wollman Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:23:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: net@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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