Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:12:41 -0700 From: "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com> To: <lab@gta.com>, <qingli@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARP Changes Message-ID: <B583FBF374231F4A89607B4D08578A43046736DE@bcs-mail03.internal.cacheflow.com>
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> > I know that arp has changed a lot in FreeBSD 8. I am wondering if one > change was by design? In older versions of FreeBSD, if you ping a = host > that is on a local network but is down, after a few seconds ping = displays: > ping: sendto: Host is down > ping: sendto: Host is down > This turned out to be a regression bug. A wrong variable is used and the incomplete entry was timing out too fast. So the ARP probe = continues indefinitely ... =20 > > Using arp to display the arp table shows: > > host.domain (x.x.x.x) at (incomplete) on em0 [ethernet] I wasn't returning incomplete entries, but now I am ... I have a patch for both issues, but I need to clean up the code because that wrong variable is used elsewhere in the same module. I should be able to commit a permanent fix by tomorrow. -- Qing
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