Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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 That's still strange since it is only the occasional packet that goes out with a 0 hardware address; usually it works. Is there any way to make an interface not reply to arp requests, but still use the hardware addresses? Thanks, Joe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
