Bug 31873

Summary: ifconfig -arp close ARP altogether
Product: Base System Reporter: strijar <strijar>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.4-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description strijar 2001-11-09 10:30:01 UTC 
if network interface configured by "ifconfig -arp" it not response ARP 
altogether - him MAC don't send to net too! Therefore other hosts 
don't see such interface
Comment 1 Crist J. Clark 2001-11-09 11:28:29 UTC 
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:28:35PM +0500, Belousov Oleg wrote:
[snip]
	
> >Description:
> if network interface configured by "ifconfig -arp" it not response ARP 
> altogether - him MAC don't send to net too! Therefore other hosts 
> don't see such interface

Uh. That's what the option is supposed to do. ifconfig(8) says,

     -arp    Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol (arp(4)).

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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
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Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-19 15:59:15 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This is the correct operation of -arp (IFF_NOARP).