From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 11 23:22: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C865E37B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mobikom.com (ns.mobikom.com [212.5.128.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3044E43E65 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:22:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ivailon@mobikom.com) Received: (qmail 25930 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 06:31:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mobikom.com) (212.5.128.80) by mail.mobikom.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 06:31:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3D803289.64F33751@mobikom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:22:01 +0300 From: Ivajlo Nikolov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: bg MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: Stacy Millions , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static ARP table References: <3D7F3D34.9BB71DB6@mobikom.com> <3D7F5D17.50609@millions.ca> <3D802998.BD05F382@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for helping me. I've got it ;)) i. Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, you want to disable the arp protocol so > > that the only entries in your arp table are the static ones that you > > add. If that is the case, you want to use the -arp option to ifconfig > > to disable arp on the interface in qestion. > > > > Keep in mind, that disabling the arp protocol means your box will not > > respond to arp request, so all host on your network must be configured > > in this manner (I hope it is a small network :-) > > There is http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/40763 > > It introduces new sysctl named > net.link.ether.inet.strict_noarp with default value of 1. > > This value corresponds to current meaning of IFF_NOARP. > One can change it to 0 to enable host to reply to ARP queries; > the ARP table is still protected from modifications > via interfaces marked as NOARP. > > I have confirmation from several people that it works as expected. > I run it myself in production. > > Eugene Grosbein > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message