ARP changes

[Larry Baird]

I know that arp has changed a lot in FreeBSD 8.  I am wondering if one
change was by design?  In older versions of FreeBSD, if you ping a host
that is on a local network but is down, after a few seconds ping displays:
	ping: sendto: Host is down
	ping: sendto: Host is down

Using arp to display the arp table shows:
	host.domain (x.x.x.x) at (incomplete) on em0 [ethernet]

In FreeBSD 8, the incomplete arp entries don't show up.  Ping never
prints "Host is down'.   The old behaviors can useful when trouble
shooting local network problems.  Is there a reason for the changes?


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