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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: "ifconfig -arp" doesn't work?
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<<On Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:32:15 -0400 (EDT), Brian Tao <taob@io.org> said:

>     Andrew is referring to the "-arp" switch to ifconfig.  I had asked
> if it was possible for an Ethernet interface not to broadcast its MAC
> address in response to an ARP query.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem
> to work.  :(

Well, you can add the following to the beginning of
if_ether.c:in_arpinput():

	if (ac->ac_if.if_flags & IFF_NOARP) {
		m_freem(m);
		return;
	}

-GAWollman

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