Thanks Sebastien for getting back to me.
Tools like arping are used as helpers within other tools or scripts. A very
important point of integration is the return code. Something returning non-zero
is considered to have failed.
It's simply not an option to sell people to add multiple lines of
Public bug reported:
When running a gratuitous / unsolicited arp via "arping -U" on Ubuntu Focal
a return code of 1 is given, instead of always 0 (as there is no arp reply
expected).
Focal:
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# arping -U -c1 -I eth0 127.0.0.1; echo "ReturnCode: $?"
ARPING 127.0.0.1 from 127.0.0.1 eth0
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