Package: iputils-arping
Version: 3:20071127-2
Severity: minor

The arping(8) man page says:

  -I interface
      Name of network device where to send ARP REQUEST packets. This
      option is required.

(the synopsis also says that this option is required). But in fact,
this option is not required:

# arping -f 192.168.0.1
ARPING 192.168.0.1 from 192.168.0.104 eth0
Unicast reply from 192.168.0.1 [00:00:C5:B4:98:74]  1.129ms
Sent 1 probes (1 broadcast(s))
Received 1 response(s)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iputils-arping depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-26     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

iputils-arping recommends no packages.

iputils-arping suggests no packages.

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