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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:12:21 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net>, Bill Fink <bill@billfink.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <19990702171221.D69050@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907021541.IAA22509@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:41:53AM -0700
References:  <19990702104239.X69050@pavilion.net> <199907021541.IAA22509@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:41:53AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> Create a permanant arp entry for is IP address.  Your server won't arp for
> him any more, and if he changes his IP address his packets won't get to
> him.
> 
> See man 8 arp:
> 
> arp -S ipaddress ethernet_add pub
> 
> should do it for you.

Yep, but unless you switch arp off it will arp for any other IP address
that he decides to change to.  One MAC address can be associated with
multiple IP addresses, as any web farm manager will tell you ;)

Does anybody know what the world record for IP addresses on one machine
is? '-)

Joe
-- 
Josef Karthauser	FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today?
Technical Manager	Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org)
Pavilion Internet plc.  [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk]


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