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SubjectRE: pppd fails to remove proxy ARP entry

>I've noticed that pppd (2.3.5) fails to remove the proxy ARP entry
>after the link goes down:

>Mar 14 10:05:22 zeus pppd[1898]: ioctl(SIOCDARP): No such file or
>directory(2)

Yes. I've seen this, and sorta tracked it down. It used to be (in 2.0)
that you could delete a proxy arp entry without specifying the 'dev' in
the apr_req struct for the ioctl. Now you have to, and ppp 2.3.5 doesn't
do it. I couldn't find a valid email for the maintainer for ppp, so it's
unlikely to get fixed :-(, and I don't think changing the kernel to
support the old method looks possible, at least from my minimal
understanding of the code.

Note: the entry can be deleted using the 'arp' util. from net-tools, just
be sure to give the '-i <interface>' option.

David

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