Re: ARP shows client is given wrong MAC Address for system with 2 NICs

Q A (qarce_mail_lists@yahoo.com)
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:14:49 -0800 (PST)


Thanks, but I am not moving the IP from one to the
other. I am just saying it doesn't matter _(A) does
not have to be eth0. Try setting up a system with 2
NICs and follow my notes. I have checked another
system with a normal 2.4.3 kernel.

Thanks for yours and everyone elses help.

Q

--- "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
wrote:
>
> [SNIPPED...]
> There is an ARP cache, always has been, always will
> be. This is so
> an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) probe doesn't
> have to occur for
> every data transmission. It is presumed that an IP
> address, including
> your own, won't jump around from device-to-device.
>
> You are moving your IP address to another device
> (MAC address). What
> do you expect?
>
> You can delete the old entries from your ARP cache,
> but it has to
> be done for every system that would be affected or
> you can just wait
> for the ARP cache entry to expire.
>
> /sbin/arp -d ipaddress
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
>
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine
> (799.53 BogoMips).
>
> I was going to compile a list of innovations
> that could be
> attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that
> Ctrl-Alt-Del
> was handled in the BIOS, I found that there
> aren't any.
>
>

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