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Re: "ip": listing of proxy ARP entries?

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Subject: Re: "ip": listing of proxy ARP entries?
From: Lutz Pressler <lp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Sep 2001 20:47:25 GMT
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Organization: Service Network GmbH, Goettingen, Germany
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Some time ago I wrote,

"Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lutz Pressler wrote:
>> 
>> I am not able to get information about manually set proxy ARP entries
>> with the "ip" tool (iproute2-ss010824), tested on both 2.2.19 and
>> 2.4.8-ac7 kernels.
>> 
>> # ip neigh add proxy 172.20.1.1 dev eth0
>> 
>> The "arp" tool then yields (normal entries trimmed)
>> # arp -n
>> Address              HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask        Iface
>> 192.168.1.254        ether   00:80:C8:F6:47:6F   C                 eth0
>> 172.20.1.1           *       *                   MP                eth0
>> 
>> but "ip" only shows
>> # ip neigh show
>> 192.168.1.254 dev eth0 lladdr 00:80:c8:f6:47:6f nud reachable
>> 
>> Is this expected behaviour or a (kernel) bug?

> I'd like to know about this as well, since this is the only reason why I keep
> the "arp" command around.

Nobody having any opinion about this? :)

Thanks,
  Lutz

Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov

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