No. It should be but it isnt. Alexey is bang on with that.
> time of the request, but the user level daemon will continue its work
> asynchronously, and the requested functionality will be available inside
> the kernel anyway within a very short time.
ARP is in the category of "not worth waiting for a reply" so yes.
> This problem is quite easily fixed _in_user_space_, i.e. in arpd, where
> the problem originates!
Not all of it.
Alan