Re: Any way to suppress select arp messages?

["Michael T. Davis" <DAVISM%ecr6.ohio-state.edu@localhost>]

At 04:39:37.01 on 27-AUG-2011 in message 
<j3aabi$ce3$1%dough.gmane.org@localhost>,
christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

>In article <01O5BAGXIFWY8ZRPMZ%ecr6.ohio-state.edu@localhost>,
>Michael T. Davis <DAVISM%ecr6.ohio-state.edu@localhost> wrote:
>>
>>At 16:55:53.76 on 26-AUG-2011 in message
>><2192B1A2-FF8A-4835-A16C-948CD13E1CEB%mac.com@localhost>, Chuck Swiger
> <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Aug 26, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Michael T. Davis wrote:
>>>> We have a number of Windows systems with multiple network interfaces
>>>> that are "ganged" via Intel's load balancing configuration.  Our NetBSD
>>>> (i386 5.1 release) firewall keeps reporting ARP messages of the following
>>> form:
>>>
>>>Do you have a net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements sysctl available?  Turn
>>> if off...
>>
>>`sysctl -a|grep log_arp_movements' doesn't report anything, so I believe that
>>means this isn't available.
>
>Here's a patch [untested].
>
>christos
>
>Index: if_arp.c
>[...]

        I appreciate this, thanks.  As I mentioned in the original message,
there are cases where we'd like to see these notifications, so a selective
approach is what's needed.  If all else fails, though, I can give this a try.

Regards,
Mike