From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 27 22:46:29 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 B26E11065672 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41B38FC3D for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31467 invoked by uid 399); 27 Aug 2009 20:55:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 27 Aug 2009 20:55:38 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4A96F2C4.7020207@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:55:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: d@delphij.net References: <200908251907.n7PJ7QiO036868@svn.freebsd.org> <20090825194258.GB1471@tops> <20090826101953.GC3055@garage.freebsd.pl> <4A959020.4040606@FreeBSD.org> <20090827135526.GI1752@garage.freebsd.pl> <4A96CE01.3010904@FreeBSD.org> <4A96E2F3.4080506@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <4A96E2F3.4080506@delphij.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Kurtsou , src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Xin LI , svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG 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: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:46:29 -0000 Xin LI wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >>> But giving multiple tools to accomplish the same thing might confuse our >>> users, so its probably not worth it. The proposed solution is good enough. >> That was the primary focus of my initial concern but enough people >> have chimed in saying that this would be useful that I have no >> objections to adding support for 'arp -f' if there is someone who >> wants to do the work. > > I can do that You're under no obligation, but if you want to volunteer that's fine. :) > but I'm afraid that the arp(8) part of the change would > have to wait until 8.0-RELEASE since it would be a new bin feature? > I'll post a proposed patch for review at freebsd-rc@ shortly. I'm confused why arp(8) would need to be modified. Xin, what are your concerns? And can someone post a working example of this kind of file? Doug