> Come on guys, don't tell me that I'm going to have to > give up Dtrace and Solaris Zones and ZFS and Sun > Studio and all the other Sun Microsystems goodies and > run Red Hat or FreeBSD or Ubuntu at work just because > I need a silly little open source utility like arping > to do my job properly.
For any variation of the above such that it's open source and there are no legal problems, the obvious answer is get it to build yourself, and then get a sponsor and get it integrated. No reason to wait around for someone else to do it, eventually, when it bubbles up to the top of a very long wishlist being worked by a small number of people. (Although it's probably handy, I'm not sure I buy that arping is an indispensible tool, given that I could probably use ping together with arp -a to accomplish pretty much the same thing (even if the destination is ignoring echo request, it still would have to answer the ARP query before it received the echo request; and regular ping can also be used on broadcast addresses).) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
