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authorglebius <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2005-12-18 19:11:56 +0000
committerglebius <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2005-12-18 19:11:56 +0000
commitcfbe2fd3f720064a5107704865ff523b8453bad9 (patch)
treebc875b79fcdd831041264850c2270cfc7001857d /usr.sbin/arp
parent175e16aa4df4f5510a7a395b24bd5ac9a00145f9 (diff)
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Add a knob to suppress logging of attempts to modify
permanent ARP entries. Submitted by: Andrew Alcheyev <buddy telenet.ru>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/arp')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/arp/arp.49
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 b/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
index ddc0471..0427000 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 24, 2005
+.Dd December 18, 2005
.Dt ARP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ to if1.
This message can only be issued if the sysctl
.Va net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface
is set to 1, which is the system's default behaviour.
+.Pp
+.Em "arp: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x attempts to modify permanent entry for %d.%d.%d.%d on %s" :
+ARP has received an ARP reply that attempts to overwrite a permanent
+antry in the local ARP table.
+This error will be only logged, if the sysctl
+.Va net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_permanent_modify
+is set to 1, which is the system's default behaviour.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr inet 4 ,
.Xr route 4 ,
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