[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#820697: Bug#820697: network-manager should support both 'arping' implementations

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:49:54 +0100 Thomas Habets <thomas at habets.se> wrote:
> On 11 April 2016 at 17:45, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Which is why I'm suggesting that network-manager should be able to aware
> > > enough to work with either.
> > I don't think we want that. If arping and iputils-arping want to be
> > interchangable arping implementations, they should find a common interface.
> >
> 
> These are both 16+ year old implementations, so I think the best to hope
> for is that a common interface subset can be used by network-manager. Or if
> there is a missing (common) feature or flag that can be implemented without
> breaking existing behaviour.
> 
> I grepped the source but did not find the actual command invocation.

The source is here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-utopia/network-manager.git/tree/src/devices/nm-arping-manager.c

Please check if arping supports the same command line arguments as
iputils-arping does and if the exit codes are the same as well.

Regards,
Michael
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