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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on SIOCGARP
Date: 4 Jun 1996 21:05:47 GMT
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vijay@news.spacestar.com (yadlapati Vijay N.) wrote:

> I was trying to port a program to FreeBSD and having problem with SIOCGARP
> in ioctl. Is SIOCGARP supported in FreeBSD. If not, is there any other way
> to get arp table entry?. Thanks in advance.

If i read arp(4) correctly, this is done via the routing socket.  It's
perhaps best to look at the implementation of arp(8) in
/usr/src/usr.sbin/arp/arp.c.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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