Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:43:52 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> To: Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca> Cc: Ivajlo Nikolov <ivailon@mobikom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static ARP table Message-ID: <3D802998.BD05F382@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <3D7F3D34.9BB71DB6@mobikom.com> <3D7F5D17.50609@millions.ca>
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> If I understand you correctly, you want to disable the arp protocol so > that the only entries in your arp table are the static ones that you > add. If that is the case, you want to use the -arp option to ifconfig > to disable arp on the interface in qestion. > > Keep in mind, that disabling the arp protocol means your box will not > respond to arp request, so all host on your network must be configured > in this manner (I hope it is a small network :-) There is http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/40763 It introduces new sysctl named net.link.ether.inet.strict_noarp with default value of 1. This value corresponds to current meaning of IFF_NOARP. One can change it to 0 to enable host to reply to ARP queries; the ARP table is still protected from modifications via interfaces marked as NOARP. I have confirmation from several people that it works as expected. I run it myself in production. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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