From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 18:19:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B659737B69D for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (hpcuhe.cup.hp.com [15.0.80.203]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01AB1851 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (klui@localhost) by hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id SAA22178 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:19:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:19:12 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Lui To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about arp for wakeonlan Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I tried searching the mailing lists but came up empty or it's quite possible my queries weren't detailed enough. I'm confused about the usage of arp. I find that I cannot enter an entry for a machine outside my subdomain with arp because I get errors like: cannot intuit interface index and type for xx.yy.zz.ww or set: can only proxy for xx.yy.zz.ww If I enter an entry for a machine on the same local subdomain, arp doesn't complain and does create an entry. What I'm trying to do is to get wake on lan working reliably. I find that if the ethernet address information is in the arp cache, wake on lan works fine, but if it has expired, I cannot get wake on lan to work. So, what can I do to fix my problem? My two machines are also using different netmasks, too. Perhaps this puts a wrinkle on things? Ken -- Ken Lui 3000 Hanover Street klui@cup.hp.com Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA Hewlett-Packard Company invent 1.650.236.5364 FAX 1.650.857.2085 Views within may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message