On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:56:49PM -0500, Joseph Eggleston wrote: > Hello all, > I've noticed the following strange behavior under linux 2.2.16. I have > two machines connected together on a LAN. Each machine has a permanent > arp entry for the other. If I then turn off arping on one machine > (ifconfig eth0 -arp) and try to contact the other machine the first > packet that goes out always has a destination hardware address of all > 0's. After that initial packet, the correct hardware address is filled > in. > > Is this known behavior or a bug? It is a known behaviour. -arp means "does not use hardware addresses" -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
