Static ARP (was: Re: NOARP - gateway must answer and have frozen ARP table)

From: Ruslan Ermilov (ru@freebsd.org)
Date: 12/26/02


Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:00:08 +0200
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su>



On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:33:31PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > OK, I have a proposal that should fit both opinions. I'll keep the
> > net.link.ether.inet.static_arp to mean what it means now (keep ARP
> > table static, no updates except from local process through a routing
> > socket writes), and will add another sysctl that will switch the
> > meaning of IFF_NOARP from "no arp" to "static arp on this interface".
> > How about this?
>
> This would be the best souliution at least for us :-)
>
OK, enough of cooling off. :-)

The attached patch (for 5.0-CURRENT) adds the IFF_STATICARP
per-interface flag, which does the obvious thing.

Cheers,

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