Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:58:37 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolving MAC address Message-ID: <200503240358.j2O3wb4I099605@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <42423976.7000608@schluting.com> (message from Charlie Schluting on Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:52:22 -0800) References: <200503240339.j2O3dpoN099306@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <42423976.7000608@schluting.com>
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> > ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:e0:29:ad:5a:aa on em0 [ethernet] > > > > will do the trick, but it is a bit too heavy for the purpose, I'd > > prefer a solution that only send an ARP request. > > > > If you just want to avoid the DNS lookup, you can use arp -an. > Its much faster :) Thanks. Off course I use arp -n to avoid DNS resolution. But what i really want to avoid is sending any IP/ICMP packet when the ARP resolution is all I need. (And some people even filter out the ICMP echo request packets (Windows XP firewall), so I have to wait for the time out). Olivier
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