svn commit: r241991 - stable/9/usr.sbin/arp
Gleb Smirnoff
glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 24 09:46:53 UTC 2012
Author: glebius
Date: Wed Oct 24 09:46:52 2012
New Revision: 241991
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241991
Log:
Merge r240072 from head:
Explicitly document all variables in the net.link.ether.inet MIB.
Modified:
stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
Directory Properties:
stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 Wed Oct 24 09:39:07 2012 (r241990)
+++ stable/9/usr.sbin/arp/arp.4 Wed Oct 24 09:46:52 2012 (r241991)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)arp4.4 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 28, 2007
+.Dd September 3, 2012
.Dt ARP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -119,20 +119,53 @@ branch
of the
.Xr sysctl 3
MIB.
-.Bl -tag
+.Bl -tag -width "log_arp_permanent_modify"
+.It Va log_arp_movements
+Should the kernel log movements of IP addresses from one hardware
+address to an other.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va log_arp_permanent_modify
+Should the kernel log attempts of remote host on network to modify a
+permanent ARP entry.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va log_arp_wrong_iface
+Should the kernel log attempts to insert an ARP entry on an interface
+when the IP network the address belongs to is connected to an other
+interface.
+See
+.Sx DIAGNOSTICS
+below.
+Turned on by default.
.It Va max_age
How long an ARP entry is held in the cache until it needs to be refreshed.
+Default is 1200 seconds.
+.It Va maxhold
+How many packets hold in the per-entry output queue while the entry
+is being resolved.
+Default is one packet.
.It Va maxtries
Number of retransmits before host is considered down and error is returned.
+Default is 5 tries.
+.It Va proxyall
+Enables ARP proxying for all hosts on net.
+Turned off by default.
.It Va useloopback
If an ARP entry is added for local address, force the traffic to go through
the loopback interface.
-.It Va proxyall
-Enables ARP proxying for all hosts on net.
+Turned on by default.
+.It Va wait
+Lifetime of an incomplete ARP entry.
+Default is 20 seconds.
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
-.It "arp: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x is using my IP address %d.%d.%d.%d!"
+.It "arp: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x is using my IP address %d.%d.%d.%d on %s!"
ARP has discovered another host on the local network which responds to
mapping requests for its own Internet address with a different Ethernet
address, generally indicating that two hosts are attempting to use the
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