From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 19:56:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073181065672; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9CE8FC22; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so388768fxm.43 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=hGU3gYkTYkIUdjh+fkRGQCWMry2KJgYzMJm3rC05mCA=; b=mqAVsSPi3t7tb67qEnK/XJ3Z7cXr1i6nNcvlc/H0b1nr1rBSz+fzBSRKx4yngyxDDK 8KEGoVa+kXipYSlw3rP7N4Tofm34KMJINhvsghMZCAI6UrxnN1NqqIaWmBhEnunueqms pAK16uAZ9TDGI+zqx9N3XSyXWo4yUVVXenIOc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ata+r/huYmEw2O7GNrB9W4KqXsCpxHQ/qf9XnmMnWI/au1n/UK8tZ5NZ61aZ75ocm8 OmB1WrInD4BixJCf2xCp5T2zAEymFf4nTMwwiCwjdCrPXQ96I+X47gLJVwj2EG68lE87 a6oXGsMe0Y6u5Fr9EoXZRKYLgfTevLtsODRiw= Received: by 10.103.78.30 with SMTP id f30mr3845260mul.87.1251316602361; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (lan-78-157-90-54.vln.skynet.lt [78.157.90.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm3743337mue.52.2009.08.26.12.56.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:56:20 +0300 From: Gleb Kurtsou To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20090826195620.GA3357@tops> References: <200908251907.n7PJ7QiO036868@svn.freebsd.org> <20090825194258.GB1471@tops> <20090826101953.GC3055@garage.freebsd.pl> <4A959020.4040606@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A959020.4040606@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Xin LI , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: svn commit: r196550 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/man/man5 X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:45 -0000 On (26/08/2009 12:42), Doug Barton wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > I put '/usr/sbin/arp -f /etc/arp.conf' into /etc/rc.local on almost all > > of my servers, which is very handy, indeed. And with your patch proposed > > in another e-mail to be able to remove entries defined in a file seems > > to be a complete solution. I'd also like to see support for it. > > What would the relative value be of adding support for files vs. using > the method that Xin already created? I understand that you will have a > one-time cost of migrating your conf file to Xin's format .... Unless there are too many arp entries to convert and these "files" are also used by other utilities. Adding support for reading it from file is negligible comparing to the effort one should take to convert plain 'arp -f' entires into rc.conf style and keep them in sync. Thanks, Gleb > > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection >