Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 04:34:20 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usage of arp -s Message-ID: <20010617043420.C420@cloaked.de> In-Reply-To: <DBEDLOOHIDFHOMJIFMGMCENBCBAA.mcowger@bowdoin.edu>; from mcowger@bowdoin.edu on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:42:14PM -0400 References: <20010616132320.W4205-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <DBEDLOOHIDFHOMJIFMGMCENBCBAA.mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
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Matthew K. Cowger <mcowger@bowdoin.edu> wrote: > THough I am going to send a pr to the docs peope about the confusion > regarding that flag, because it says to use hostname, not IP address. You _can_ use 'arp -s' with the hostname. If the first argument after -s is no valid IP address arp uses gethostbyname() to get the address. Perhaps the hostname couldn't be resolved in your case. -- Benedikt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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