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-d Delete an entry for the host called hostname.
+ Note that ARP entries for IPMP data and test addresses
+ are managed by the kernel, and thus cannot be deleted.
SunOS 5.11 Last change: 25 Jul 2006 2
@@ -165,10 +167,29 @@
is not physically present on a subnet. Another machine
can then be configured to respond to ARP requests
using arp -s. This is useful in certain SLIP confi-
gurations.
+ Non-temporary proxy ARP entries for an IPMP group are
+ automatically managed by the kernel. Specifically, if
+ the hardware address in an entry matches the hardware
+ address of an IP interface in an IPMP group, and the
+ IP address is not local to the system, this will be
+ regarded as an IPMP proxy ARP entry. This entry will
+ have its hardware address automatically adjusted in
+ order to keep the IP address reachable so long as the
+ IPMP group has not entirely failed.
+
+ ARP entries must be consistent across an IPMP group.
+ Therefore, ARP entries cannot be associated with
+ individual underlying IP interfaces in an IPMP group,
+ and must instead be associated with the corresponding
+ IPMP IP interface.
+
+ Note that ARP entries for IPMP data and test addresses
+ are managed by the kernel, and thus cannot be changed.
+
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes: