In FreeBSD, the arp cache is cleared by "arp -da".  Unless there is a great reason
to do otherwise, can we keep it like FreeBSD?

Thanks -Mike


On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >> # arp -na | awk '{gsub("[()]","",$2);print$2}' | xargs -n1 arp -vd
> >> 
> >> for something less shell-centric.
> >
> >I always forget xargs exists...
> 
> i only started using it at all about a year ago.  prior to that i
> would have done something like
> 
> # foreach i (`arp -na | awk '{gsub("[()]","",$2);print$2}'`)
> > arp -vd $i
> > end
> 
> but that's because i use tcsh.
> 
> >> for arp(8), i add the -D option with the attached patch.  anyone mind
> >> if it gets committed?
> >> 
> >> (-D because -f is already taken)
> >
> >I'm not really in a position to say yea or nay to the patch (I'm not
> >familiar with arp internals), but I'd say definitely send-pr it.
> 
> well...you may not be, but someone else might think it's good.  :)
> 
> it's a pretty straight forward rip of dump that just calls delete
> instead of looking for matches or printing anything.
> 
> >(-D seems sensible to me as well, as long as the man page is also
> >updated clearly.)
> 
> also in the patch.  :)
> 
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