From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 9 3:40: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AA137B41F for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fA9Be2X14709; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111091140.fA9Be2X14709@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: kern/31873: ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/31873; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Belousov Oleg Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/31873: ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:28:29 -0800 On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:28:35PM +0500, Belousov Oleg wrote: [snip] > >Description: > if network interface configured by "ifconfig -arp" it not response ARP > altogether - him MAC don't send to net too! Therefore other hosts > don't see such interface Uh. That's what the option is supposed to do. ifconfig(8) says, -arp Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol (arp(4)). -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message