Garrett Wollman writes:
> > I apologize for not getting this.. I'll try another question: why
> > doesn't "arp -d x.y.z.w" just delete whatever ARP entry there is
> > for x.y.z.w no matter what kind it is?
>
> Because it doesn't know what kind is there. It could find out, but
> then you'd have a race condition, and in any case the system
> administrator is presumed to know what permanent ARP entries there are
> and of which sort. (In most cases it doesn't matter.)
OK.. could you provide a one sentence description that I can
add to the man page? E.g. "... the proxy keyword is required when
deleting published ARP entries" or whatever.
Thanks,
-Archie
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