Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:16:22 -0500 From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@netzuno.com> To: "Mitch Collinsworth" <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> Cc: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to send arp request with no other traffic Message-ID: <HJEEKLMFLKEOKHOKNPBMKEDBCJAA.patrick@netzuno.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101231801100.22935-100000@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu>
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Hi, > You've asked two different questions here, with differing answers: > > 1) How to do an arp resolution without sending traffic to the IP, and > 2) Is it possible to do it all in one command. > > The answer to 2) is: of course. Thanks for the nice explanation of the arp mechanism. This was not really my question (I already knew that much). My real question was "2: is is possible to do it all in one command" and more specifically HOW... The arp(8) command does not do it or at least does not seem to do it. After browsing through the FreeBSD source, the only way to trigger the arp resolution is to attempt to send traffic to a given IP. Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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