Re: Any way to suppress select arp messages?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 30, 12:52pm, netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost (Stephen Borrill) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Any way to suppress select arp messages?

| On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| >>> 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].
| [snip]
| 
| I've a more generic patch which introduces a 4-stage verbosity level for 
| arp messages:
| 
| http://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/arp.diff
| 
| This has been tested.

Yes, I tested mine too and committed it to head. I think that what they
wanted was control over individual types of messages not, verbocity levels.
Also FreeBSD has the same sysctls, so it is good to try to not create
different interfaces.

christos