Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP API documentation? Message-ID: <20020122202554.77694.qmail@web10005.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020122192851.D58453@sunbay.com>
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--- Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:22:12AM -0800, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I search and search but cannot find any documentation on the user-space
> level
> > API for ARP. I know of only two code examples in the tree
> (usr.sbin/arp/arp.c
> > and usr.sbin/ppp/arp.c) and I do not wish to play guessing games about the
> > protocol.
> >
> > It's clear that you open a PF_ROUTE raw socket and write a message to it to
> > manipulate the ARP tables. Is the format of the message documented
> anywhere?
> >
> route(4).
How is ARP documented without using the word "ARP"?
$ man 4 route | grep -i arp | wc -l
0
Seems the old ioctl(2) interface to ARP had better documentation than that.
> Cheers,
> --
> Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA,
> ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG,
> ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer,
> +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine
>
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