svn commit: r241991 - stable/9/usr.sbin/arp

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 24 09:46:53 UTC 2012


Author: glebius
Date: Wed Oct 24 09:46:52 2012
New Revision: 241991
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241991

Log:
  Merge r240072 from head:
    Explicitly document all variables in the net.link.ether.inet MIB.

Modified:
  stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
Directory Properties:
  stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4	Wed Oct 24 09:39:07 2012	(r241990)
+++ stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4	Wed Oct 24 09:46:52 2012	(r241991)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)arp4.4	6.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd March 28, 2007
+.Dd September 3, 2012
 .Dt ARP 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -119,20 +119,53 @@ branch
 of the
 .Xr sysctl 3
 MIB.
-.Bl -tag
+.Bl -tag -width "log_arp_permanent_modify"
+.It Va log_arp_movements
+Should the kernel log movements of IP addresses from one hardware
+address to an other.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va log_arp_permanent_modify
+Should the kernel log attempts of remote host on network to modify a
+permanent ARP entry.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va log_arp_wrong_iface
+Should the kernel log attempts to insert an ARP entry on an interface
+when the IP network the address belongs to is connected to an other
+interface.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
 .It Va max_age
 How long an ARP entry is held in the cache until it needs to be refreshed.
+Default is 1200 seconds.
+.It Va maxhold
+How many packets hold in the per-entry output queue while the entry
+is being resolved.
+Default is one packet.
 .It Va maxtries
 Number of retransmits before host is considered down and error is returned.
+Default is 5 tries.
+.It Va proxyall
+Enables ARP proxying for all hosts on net.
+Turned off by default.
 .It Va useloopback
 If an ARP entry is added for local address, force the traffic to go through
 the loopback interface.
-.It Va proxyall
-Enables ARP proxying for all hosts on net.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va wait
+Lifetime of an incomplete ARP entry.
+Default is 20 seconds.
 .El
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 .Bl -diag
-.It "arp: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x is using my IP address %d.%d.%d.%d!"
+.It "arp: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x is using my IP address %d.%d.%d.%d on %s!"
 ARP has discovered another host on the local network which responds to
 mapping requests for its own Internet address with a different Ethernet
 address, generally indicating that two hosts are attempting to use the


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