arp fails to clear mapping for deleted network

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9573 at gmx.com
Wed May 20 12:23:49 UTC 2009


Li, Qing wrote:
> Please apply the patch at "http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/patch" and
> that should fix your problem.

Yes, your patch fixes the problem.

> I found another issue while testing the patch. I am working on it and
> hope to have a fix soon.

While you're at it and if it's not too much to ask, could you
also check proxy-arp?

For example:
arp -s 192.168.254.250 auto pub
> 15:16:56.497270 08:00:27:49:d9:5e > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Request who-has 192.168.254.250 tell 192.168.254.250, length 28
But, when a request for 192.168.254.250 comes in, it doesn't
reply
> 15:17:04.902291 00:18:d1:e4:ee:29 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: Request who-has 192.168.254.250 tell 192.168.254.254, length 46

Thanks, Nikos


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