In article <06601B69B526914CB62E1C7B1663B5CA436102@w2kexgvie02> you wrote: > Have you looked at the "heartbeat" software available from > http://www.linux-ha.org/? one of the components is a utility to generate arp > packets (used when moving an IP address between hosts). might be easier for > you to just use the existing program. there is also arping, which can do gratious arps, arp requests and DAD. Greetings Bernd - : 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