Re: arpresolve

[Jeff Nathan <jeff@wwti.com>]

If you're going to be at BlackHat 2001 this summer in Las Vegas and you
make it to the talk Kevin DePeugh and I are giving, you'll understand
why it's pretty darned important OpenBSD behaves like this.

-Jeff

SethB@ClarkHill.com wrote:
> 
> jeff@wwti.com wrote:
> > We should be happy that OpenBSD behaves this way and makes note of
> > the issue.
> 
> If I'm renumbering 50 machines, and I stop halfway through, then every ARP
> request or reply is going to generate error messages on 25 machines, meaning
> that the logs of every machine will be full of crud.  I consider that to be
> a needless annoyance.  Yes, it should be enabled by default (though I say
> again, a less obscure message would be more useful), but it should be
> possible to switch it off.
> 
> --
> Seth L. Blumberg <sethb@clarkhill.com>
> Systems Analyst, Clark Hill PLC
> 
> please pardon the annoying confidentiality message; I'm not allowed to turn
> it off
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