Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:40:14 -0800 From: "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.com> To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@netzuno.com> Cc: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic Message-ID: <006901c085ae$fae9bd80$0402010a@biohz.net> References: <HJEEKLMFLKEOKHOKNPBMKEDBCJAA.patrick@netzuno.com>
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An amusing trick to populate the ARP table is to ping the broadcast address. Even if hosts do not reply to your ping packet (typically, Windows machines), they are entered in the ARP table. You still have to send a single packet, but it does all the work. --Renaud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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