From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 13:01:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22079 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22074 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mom.holontech.com (success.holontech.com [206.204.78.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27501 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:01:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from satish@x.Holontech.com) Received: by mom.holontech.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:45:35 -0800 Message-ID: <1162BE4AB70ED111A648006097BDDB852473DA@mom.holontech.com> From: Satish Bommareddy To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'satish@holontech.com'" Subject: arp handling of freeBSD Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:45:32 -0800 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk hi, i am interested to find out how freeBSD handles arp requests especially when we have multiple IP addresses configured per interface. if i have the primary IP as x.x.x.x and the secondary IP as y.y.y.y and so on and there is an arp request for the primary IP what does it respond back with. and in the same scenario when it does a arp request. for an different ip address say.. a.b.c.d what is the source address of the arp request. is it always the primary IP address??? satish satish@holontech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man - Friedrich Nietzsche The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------