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
< said:
> This seems a little funny then.. why then would you ever want not
> to use "proxy" keyword? That is, why would you expect to be able
> delete a real route using the arp command?
Because you have a non-proxy (permanent or temporary) ARP cache entry
that you want to flush.
-GAWollman
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< said:
> 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
Garrett Wollman writes:
> > This seems a little funny then.. why then would you ever want not
> > to use "proxy" keyword? That is, why would you expect to be able
> > delete a real route using the arp command?
>
> Because you have a non-proxy (permanent or temporary) ARP cache entry
> that you wa
