Does FreeBSD do proactive ARP refresh?

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

18.03.2018, 03:31, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>:
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>>  17.03.2018, 21:23, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>:
>>  >> ?16.03.2018, 14:50, "sthaug at nethelp.no" <sthaug at nethelp.no>:
>>  >> ?..
>>  >> ?>> ?And thank you for that suggestion! The packet loss during ARP refresh
>>  >> ?>> ?(of the destination address connected to the output interface) does
>>  >> ?>> ?*not* happen when the box is forwarding! It only happens with locally
>>  >> ?>> ?generated traffic.
>>  >> ?Should be fixed by r331098.
>>  >
>>  > Thanks for the quick fix, do we know about when this breakage started?
>>  I guess it's something like r297225.
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> SO 2 years ago, meaning it effects stable/11,
> and may of been merged to stable/10?
Side note: if one has monitoring which does ICMP checks, it will mask the issue because icmp replies don't use route caching.
Typical story  when the observer changes the state of an observed object :-).
IIRC it was not merged to stable/10.
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> Do you plan to MFC your fix?
Yes, I do :-)
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