From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jan 23 19:59:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ebola.biohz.net (ebola.biohz.net [206.80.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A485C37B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from flu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.biohz.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 113B83A282; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:59:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <008001c085ba$0813cae0$0402010a@biohz.net> From: "Renaud Waldura" To: "Alex Pilosov" , "Patrick Bihan-Faou" Cc: References: Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:59:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Also known as /usr/ports/net/arping ! Very handy tool indeed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Pilosov" To: "Renaud Waldura" Cc: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" ; Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:47 PM Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic > Actually answer to original question is here: > > http://synscan.nss.nu/programs.php > > I am not sure if it works on fbsd, last time I looked at it, it had a few > linuxisms hardcoded... > > > -alex > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Renaud Waldura wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message