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[ILUG] ARP Insanity!

[ILUG] ARP Insanity!

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Feb 21 15:11:05 GMT 2006


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Nick Murtagh wrote:

> # arping -b -s 10.2.1.230 -I eth0 00:20:ED:79:2F:70
> arping: unknown host 00:20:ED:79:2F:70
> #
>
> Any attempt to put a MAC address into an arping command gives me
> that error.

Oops. Then arping can't be used to send gratuitious ARPs. IIRC the 
'heartbeat' (on linux-ha.org) includes some kind of util to do so. 
Despite the hostname, heartbeat works on other platforms via libpcap 
iirc. BTW - what is server A?

regards,
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