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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet if_ether.c
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* C. Stephen Gunn <csg@waterspout.com> [010106 10:02] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:45:08PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > alfred      2001/01/05 16:45:08 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/netinet          if_ether.c 
> >   Log:
> >   provide a sysctl 'net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface' to allow one
> >   to supress logging when ARP replies arrive on the wrong interface:
> >    "/kernel: arp: 1.2.3.4 is on dc0 but got reply from 00:00:c5:79:d0:0c
> >     on dc1"
> >   
> >   the default is to log just to give notice about possibly incorrectly
> >   configured networks.
> 
> ``ether.inet.'' is a poor name for this option.
> 
> ARP is completely independant of both Ethernet and and Internet
> Protocol.  ARP provides an abstract protocol to translate layer-3
> protocol addresses to layer-2 media addresses using broadcast
> traffic.  One of the major problem's with FreeBSD's implementation
> is that it only works with ethernet devices, and only for IP.

Then why is the function under
#ifdef INET
and the file under netinet?

?

thanks,
-Alfred


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