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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: "ifconfig -arp" doesn't work?
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> >     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;
> 	}

Should this code be committed to -current?


Nate