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
Using arp to display the arp table shows:
host.domain (x.x.x.x) at (incomplete) on em0 [ethernet]
In FreeBSD 8, the incomplete arp entries don't show up. Ping never
prints "Host is down'. The old behaviors can useful when trouble
shooting local network problems. Is there a reason for the changes?
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