FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp

[Bruce M Simpson]

Hi Ruslan,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:46:32PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > I still have not committed the code that supports static ARP
> > > on an interface -- there's currently no way to do static ARP
> > > only, if you disable ARP on an interface it will be disabled
> > > in its whole.
> > 
> > I'd like to review and potentially test this patch before it goes in, as it
> > sounds interesting and useful to us.
> > 
> Attached.

I've had a chance to give this a quick test and it operates as expected. I
don't see a problem with this going in, but be aware of the changes which
might be needed if we go with NetBSD's arp code in future (which is a lot
cleaner than the code we have at present).

BMS