On 18/08/14(Mon) 11:55, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Martin Pieuchot <[email protected]> [2014-08-18 11:03]:
> > On 15/08/14(Fri) 10:43, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > > * Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> [2014-08-15 10:29]:
> > > > On 2014/08/12 15:46, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > > > I find arp(8) output really difficult to read, but more importantly it
> > > > > does not print the expire time of non permanent entries like ndp(8).
> > > > > So the diff below change arp(8)'s output to be more similar to 
> > > > > ndp(8)'s
> > > > > one.
> > > > Personally I like the extra information from the timer,
> > > same here
> > > > but not the big change of format (I find the extra whitespace makes
> > > > it harder to see which MAC address goes with each IP address)
> > > I actually like the proposed new format there better.
> > > > or loss of IP addresses where a name exists.
> > > here I agree with stuart.
> > Well I couldn't came with a better trade-off.  The actual output does
> > not fit in 80 columns as soon as a FQDN is a bit long and adding the
> > timer information does not help.  So instead of reinventing an output,
> > I tried to match what ndp does.
> > At least with this diff the "-n" flag is coherent with what route(8),
> > netsat(8) and ndp(8) do.
> > So I hear what you say but I don't see which output can address the
> > points you raised.
> > So unless somebody has a better idea, I'd like to commit this so that
> > we can get use to the new output 8)
> 
> fair enough. ok.

If I don't get any other suggestion, I'll commit the diff tomorrow.

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