From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 31 13:42:56 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE3137B4EC; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA04355; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA28274; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200101312142.NAA28274@curve.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/arp arp.8 arp.c In-Reply-To: <200101311752.MAA66835@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "from Garrett Wollman at Jan 31, 2001 12:52:57 pm" To: Garrett Wollman Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:42:29 -0800 (PST) Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message