[Gllug] arp problem?

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sun Jun 11 12:42:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 20:21 +0800, Richard Cohen wrote:

> There are two reasons which come to mind to load a static value into
> the ARP cache:
> 
> You're running a system without a hard drive, say, a Dreamcast, which
> has a kernel which picks up its own IP address at boot time by doing
> ARP the other way - "I've got MAC address XXXX - what is my IP
> address?"


This is exactly (Dreamcast) what I am doing...which brings me back to
the original point - any idea why it is not working so well?



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