I have committed the fix into the -current branch, svn r198111. Please give it a try and I plan to MFC the patch into 8.0 release branch in 3 days.
Thank you for the report. -- Qing -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org on behalf of Li, Qing Sent: Wed 10/14/2009 6:12 PM To: l...@gta.com; qin...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org; freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARP Changes > > 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 ... > > 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
