Posting for other's benefit in case someone else does this. I searched the web without finding an answer then discovered the issue. What I saw in a tcpdump output (because things weren't working) was Request who-has <target IP address> tell <target IP address> Where <target IP address> was a local interface address, quite odd since the local interface should know its own MAC address. The problem was that I had accidentally used the local interface IP address in 'ip route add default via <local interface IP address> dev <local interface>' instead of 'ip route add default via <gateway IP address accessible from local interface> dev <interface>'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html