Wes Peters wrote:
>
> "C. Stephen Gunn" wrote:
> >
> > Netgraph is an excellent technology. While your comment makes
> > sense, there are several issues that will need to be addressed.
> > For instance, the current ARP implementation in FreeBSD is
> > entangled with the generic ethernet code.
>
> Under netgraph, it would be just another protocol in a netgraph node,
> and could be added to (and removed from) the interface as needed. That
> would be interesting from the standpoint of a secure system over which
> you wanted to control the ARP entries. Being able to simply turn off
> dynamic ARP has been discussed often, but never really acted upon.
Sorry to reply to my own message, but another thought hit me. Now that
the swelling has gone down, I thought I should share it:
This might even give us a start at a sticky problem that has been bugging
VLAN switch makers from the start, namely, per-VLAN ARP tables. That is
something really needed to do VLANs correctly.
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