On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:09:36PM -0700, Nivedita Singhvi wrote: > Some operating systems provide support in the kernel (i.e. the > kernel issues a gratuitous arp when appropriate). Linux doesnt, > but I heard that there was a user level utility available that > forced a gratuitous arp. I'd be interested in a pointer to it > myself, if someone can supply one. That user level utility is likely arping, which is part of iputils. iproute2 includes example scripts on how to use it for gratuitous ARP and DAD. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html