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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        ru@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c
Message-ID:  <200101312142.NAA28274@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101311752.MAA66835@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Jan 31, 2001 12:52:57 pm"

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Garrett Wollman writes:
> > Hmm.. yeah, it doesn't seem to actually be required for anything..
> 
> It is.
> 
> If you have a route to destination a.b.c.d, and also publish a proxy
> ARP entry to a.b.c.d, and you wish to delete the proxy ARP entry, you
> need to specify the proxy bit because otherwise the wrong route will
> be deleted.

This seems a little funny then.. why then would you ever want not
to use "proxy" keyword? That is, why would you expect to be able
delete a real route using the arp command? Seems like we should just
make the "proxy" keyword implicit all the time.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com


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