Re: Static ARP table in Linux

From: Arthur Clune (ajc22_at_york.ac.uk)
Date: 12/15/03

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    --On 13/12/03 15:34:49 -0200 Felipe Franciosi wrote:

    >
    > One (ugly?) solution would be to set the interface as you are doing and
    > have a daemon answering arp requests for your IP. It's a very simple
    > program, actually. If you need more information on that daemon, drop me
    > a line.

    We do that here (for good reasons to do with not wanting to generate the
    number
    of firewall rules that would otherwise be generated). Works fine.

    You need arping to do this
    http://www.gnu.org/directory/All_Packages_in_Directory/arping.html

    ifconfig eth1 -arp
    arping -i eth1 -B

    Arthur 

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Arthur Clune
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