Re: Way to turn off all ARP requests?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Fri, 29 May 1998 23:57:27 +0100 (BST)


Hi Dax.

> In a particular situation, I want to maintain my own static IP ->
> Ethernet MAC address table.

> How do I turn off ARP completely?

Remove (or comment out) any entries referring to RARP, BOOTPS, BOOTPC
or TFTP (upper or lower case) from /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
then reboot the relevant system.

Best wishes from Riley.

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