From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 13:10:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA36537B401 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hysteria.spc.org (hysteria.spc.org [195.206.69.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B093443F3F for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@hysteria.spc.org) Received: (qmail 17140 invoked by uid 5013); 7 Jul 2003 20:08:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:08:05 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Dmitry Morozovsky Message-ID: <20030707200805.GF32325@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Dmitry Morozovsky , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <20030706213123.X10099@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030706213123.X10099@woozle.rinet.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Review: bin/54151 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:10:02 -0000 On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:33:11PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > would you please spend a bit of your time to review > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/54151 > [patch to add -i option to arp(8)]? I think this sort of thing is badly needed, especially for the router/VLAN scenarios which you envisage. However, one thing which has always bothered me is the message: arp: actual retrieval of routing table I've seen this when the arp table is in an undefined state, i.e. empty, it could be more helpfully worded. BMS