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Date:      Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:55:32 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.ORG>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r196550 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <4A96F2C4.7020207@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A96E2F3.4080506@delphij.net>
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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



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