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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:10:31AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> >Right.  But static ARP means something different.  It means
> >that the APR table is frozen, but system will still reply
> >to ARP requests for its addresses, which is not done if
> >IFF_NOARP flag is set on an interface.
> 
> Okay, I may have been misusing the term.  I meant *permanent* and
> *manual* entries in the ARP table, via the arp command, and
> disabling ARP on the interface.
> 
> That seems to work.  What does your lexicon say for "static arp?"
> 
Read what I have said -- static ARP means that ARP is functional,
but no updates are allowed based on information from the network.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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