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From: Belousov Oleg <strijar@urai.ru>
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Subject: ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether
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>Number:         31873
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 09 02:30:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Mon Nov 19 07:59:15 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov 19 08:01:21 PST 2001
>Originator:     Belousov Oleg
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ws 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Fri Oct 5 09:01:24 YEKST 2001 root@ws:/usr/src/sys/compile/WS i386


	
>Description:
if network interface configured by "ifconfig -arp" it not response ARP 
altogether - him MAC don't send to net too! Therefore other hosts 
don't see such interface

>How-To-Repeat:


>Fix:

	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Belousov Oleg <strijar@urai.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/31873: ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:28:29 -0800

 On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:28:35PM +0500, Belousov Oleg wrote:
 [snip]
 	
 > >Description:
 > if network interface configured by "ifconfig -arp" it not response ARP 
 > altogether - him MAC don't send to net too! Therefore other hosts 
 > don't see such interface
 
 Uh. That's what the option is supposed to do. ifconfig(8) says,
 
      -arp    Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol (arp(4)).
 
 -- 
 Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
 http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 19 07:59:15 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is the correct operation of -arp (IFF_NOARP). 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31873 
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