Re: Restructuring ARP cache

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 11/09/2015 16:52, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On a machine that has static address configuration and does not use
> dhcpcd I have:

> X.Y.Z.16      A:B:C:f4:e1:80  UHLc        -        -      -  bnx0
> X.Y.Z.17      A:B:C:15:ca:e4  UHLc        -        -      -  lo0
> X.Y.Z.18      A:B:C:15:ca:e4  UHLc        -        -      -  lo0
> X.Y.Z.62      E:F:G:5f:38:fc  UHLc        -        -      -  bnx0
> 
> 62 is the gateway, 16 is the interface address and the other two were added
> by arp. What is the correct behavior? What we have now seems inconsistent.

Looking purely at the routing table, X.Y.Z.17 and X.Y.Z.18 are addresses
assigned to a local interface while X.Y.Z.16 and X.Y.Z.62 are addresses
on an attached network.

I would also say that this output was from -7, or a -current prior to
RTF_LOCAL being added.

Roy