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From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: "Thomas S. Crum - AAA Web Solution, Inc." <tscrum@aaawebsolution.com>
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Subject: Re: Loading permanent ARP entries at boot time
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:11:50AM -0500, Thomas S. Crum - AAA Web Solution, Inc. wrote:
> I am trying to load arp entries from a file at boot time.
> 
> I can add the individual permanent arp entries with:
> arp -S hostname ether_addr
> 
> But, when I reboot the system the arp entries are lost.

Put your commands in /etc/rc.local