On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:46:32PM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> 
> Motivation:
> * wrong application paths for arping (from arping package) and ethtool

You are right, ethtool is wrong, however, for arping:

jfs@silicio:if-up-scripts$ which arping
/usr/bin/arping
jfs@silicio:if-up-scripts$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/arping
iputils-arping: /usr/bin/arping


It looks like the 'arping' package installs in /usr/sbin/ instead...

> * ARP_TIMEOUT: anything less than 1500 microseconds is unreliable
> * inaccurate arping options

Ouch, it looks like iputil's arping has a different meaning for that
variable:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
-w deadline
              Specify a timeout, in seconds, before arping exits regardless
                                 ^^^^^^^^^
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the patch, but I will also have to change the script to cover both
situations (arping from iputils-arping or from arping).

Regards

Javier

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