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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-11-24 13:44:42 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-11-24 13:44:42 +0000
commitf6e0fe26535937569b564a74c6e113aa03a5a502 (patch)
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parent5bd42d0a341608d0aed696100d277c0e90c4ab74 (diff)
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Improve the documentation of "proxyall" knob, somewhat: we do not
proxy for hosts that are reachable through the same interface the request came in from. This feature is mainly for hosts reachable through some P2P link, e.g. the gif(4) tunnel.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
index 1ef7206..ddc0471 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
+++ b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)arp4.4 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 10, 2005
+.Dd November 24, 2005
.Dt ARP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ However, the
.Dq "proxy all"
feature causes the local host to act as a proxy for
.Em all
-hosts.
+hosts reachable through some other network interface,
+different from the one the request came in from.
It may be enabled by setting the
.Xr sysctl 8
MIB variable
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