Re: arp bug in 2.0.31-pre2 ?

A.N.Kuznetsov (kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:55:58 +0400


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970720161814.174A-100000@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> you wrote:

: While playing with the Sun SLC I got yesterday, I noticed that my
: hand-created arp entries disapear. I created one entry with...

: goldbach root ~# arp -s 130.149.149.163 08:00:20:00:01:02
....
: It seems the 'M'-Flag gets killed while the sparclinux kernel touches the
: network for the first time, so I guess either the bootp broadcast or the
: arp query has this side effect.

Right, bootpd replaced your permanent arp entry with its own
temporary one.

Alexey Kuznetsov.