Re: How to hard wire arp tables? (Newbie)

From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange@nsk.yi.org)
Date: 11/14/01 

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:30:30 +0000
From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange@nsk.yi.org>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: How to hard wire arp tables? (Newbie)
Message-ID: <20011114223030.A19812@nsk.yi.org>

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:55:07AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> And, as a final parting thought -- arp's manpage claims to handle the
> arp *cache* .. does -f tell the arp tool to set those entries to 'never
> delete' in the cache?

A manually inserted arp definition is considered as static and never
expiring:

My man arp:

-s ....
If the temp flag is not supplied entries will be permanent stored into
the ARP cache. ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^

-f ....
Similar to the -s option, only this time the address info is taken from file.
...
Additionally the pub, temp and netmask flags can be used.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha 

-- 
Luciano Rocha, strange@nsk.yi.org

The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
you want.
                -- D. Cohen

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