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Re: Gratuitous ARP/RAW sockets under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eckes)
Mon Feb 5 17:16:11 1996
To: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:51:48 +0100 (CET)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <199602050655.HAA04469@lrc.epfl.ch> from "Werner Almesberger" at Feb 5, 96 07:55:32 am
From: Eckes <ukd1@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Hello,
> Gratuitous ARPs are sent after a system has (possibly) changed some of its
> IP-MAC_address associations, e.g. after a reboot. This shortens the time
> until other systems on the same wire pick up the new address. A gratuitous
> ARP is a request for the system's own IP address.
Oh yes... hmm.. this can be done in usermode. I think this is a good feature
for arp(8). Any volunteers? If not, I am going to do that :)
Greetings
Bernd
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