[Gllug] arp problem?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 03:28 +0100, Casper Gasper wrote:
> On 10/06/06, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have a network card (eth0) attached to this (Ubuntu) box which has a
> > crossover cable connection to one other device.
> >
> > I assign the attached device's IP addr using arp - I have this in
> > rc.local:
> >
> > arp -s 192.168.61.55 00:d0:f1:03:12:b9
> 
>   Why do you need to put a static entry in the arp table?
> 
What is the alternative? (Seriously).

This approach always worked in the past

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