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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: "Matthew K. Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
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Subject: Re: Usage of arp -s
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Try using the IP address instead of the host name.


				Fer


On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matthew K. Cowger wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am try to use ARP (specifically the -s flag) to map a MAC address t oa
> host name.
> After reading the man page, i tried:
>
> blondie# uname -a
> FreeBSD blondie.bowdoin.edu 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Wed May  2
> 22:11:53 EDT 2001
> mcowger@diablo.bowdoin.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BLONDIE  i386
> blondie# arp -s mytest 91:02:64:de:58:8f
> arp: mytest: Unknown host
> blondie#
>
> So....what am I doing wrong?  (Note that I dont want to do this via DNS or
> /etc/hosts for other reasons)
>
> Thanx
>
>
> Matt
>
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