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31.Dd September 1, 2019
32.Dt ARP 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm arp ,
36.Nm arp_ifinit ,
37.Nm arpresolve ,
38.Nm arpintr
39.Nd externally visible ARP functions
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In netinet/if_inarp.h
42.Ft void
43.Fn arp_ifinit "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct ifaddr *ifa"
44.Ft int
45.Fn arpresolve "struct ifnet *ifp" "const struct rtentry *rt" "struct mbuf *m" "const struct sockaddr *dst" "void *desten" "size_t destlen"
46.Ft void
47.Fn arpintr
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51functions provide the interface between the
52.Nm
53module and the network drivers which need
54.Nm
55functionality.
56Such drivers must request the
57.Ar arp
58attribute in their "files" declaration.
59.Bl -tag -width "arp_ifinit()"
60.It Fn arp_ifinit
61Sets up the
62.Nm
63specific fields in
64.Fa ifa .
65Additionally, it sends out a gratuitous
66.Nm
67request on
68.Fa ifp ,
69so that other machines are warned that we have a (new) address and
70duplicate addresses can be detected.
71.Pp
72You must call this in your drivers' ioctl function when you get a
73SIOCSIFADDR request with an AF_INET address family.
74.It Fn arpresolve
75is called by network output functions to resolve an IPv4 address.
76If no
77.Fa rt
78is given, a new one is looked up or created.
79If the passed or found
80.Fa rt
81does not contain a valid gateway link level address, a pointer to the packet
82in
83.Fa m
84is stored in the route entry, possibly replacing older stored packets, and an
85.Nm
86request is sent instead.
87When an
88.Nm
89reply is received, the last held packet is send.
90Otherwise, the looked up address is returned and written into the storage
91.Fa desten
92points to.
93.Fn arpresolve
94returns 1, if a valid address was stored to
95.Fa desten ,
96and the packet can be sent immediately.
97Else a 0 is returned.
98.It Fn arpintr
99When an
100.Nm
101packet is received, the network driver (class) input interrupt handler queues
102the packet on the arpintrq queue, and requests an
103.Fn arpintr
104soft interrupt callback.
105.Fn arpintr
106dequeues the packets, performs sanity checks and calls (for IPv4
107.Nm
108packets, which are the only ones supported currently) the
109.Fn in_arpinput
110function.
111.Fn in_arpinput
112either generates a reply to request packets, and adds the sender address
113translation to the routing table, if a matching route entry is found.
114If the route entry contained a pointer to a held packet, that packet is
115sent.
116.El
117.Sh CODE REFERENCES
118The ARP code is implemented in
119.Pa sys/net/if_arp.h ,
120.Pa sys/netinet/if_inarp.h
121and
122.Pa sys/netinet/if_arp.c .
123.Sh SEE ALSO
124.Xr ether_ifattach 9
125.\" .Xr fddi_ifattach 9 ,
126.\" .Xr arc_ifattach 9
127.Pp
128Plummer, D., "RFC826", An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol.
129.Sh STANDARDS
130RFC 826
131.Sh HISTORY
132Rewritten to support other than Ethernet link level addresses in
133.Nx 1.3 .
134.Sh AUTHORS
135.An UCB CSRG
136(original implementation)
137.An Ignatios Souvatzis
138(support for non-Ethernet)
139