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From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ARP API documentation?
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--- Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:22:12AM -0800, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I search and search but cannot find any documentation on the user-space
> level
> > API for ARP.  I know of only two code examples in the tree
> (usr.sbin/arp/arp.c
> > and usr.sbin/ppp/arp.c) and I do not wish to play guessing games about the
> > protocol.
> > 
> > It's clear that you open a PF_ROUTE raw socket and write a message to it to
> > manipulate the ARP tables.  Is the format of the message documented
> anywhere?
> > 
> route(4).

How is ARP documented without using the word "ARP"?

$ man 4 route | grep -i arp | wc -l
       0

Seems the old ioctl(2) interface to ARP had better documentation than that.
 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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