RE: How to find an IP address from the MAC address of a remote machine ? (DHCP web page)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> I wrote something that may be interesting to you...
>
> http://daevid.com/examples/dhcp/
>
> However, I've noticed some annoyances. It seems that 'arp - n' forgets
> things. That is, there will be machines on large networks that don't
> actually show up in the arp table. If you ping the machines, then arp sees
> them again. Lame.

This is called "natural behaviour" and is quite expected.

RFC826 covers this off quite nicely under the sections

"why is it done this way ?" and
"Related Issue"

-- 
Steve.


-- 
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [Kernel Development]     [PAM]     [Fedora Users]     [Red Hat Development]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Linux Admin]     [Gimp]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Yosemite News]     [Red Hat Crash Utility]


  Powered by Linux