[Gllug] arp problem?

[Casper Gasper]

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?

>
>
> The device (a Dreamcast) has it's kernel sent down the connection and
> mounts an NFS root.
>
> This seems to work well for a while but then the connection dies and the
> NFS share is lost and I have to reboot. On reboot the server (ie this
> box) reports that the IP 192.168.61.55 is unreachable (or rather pings
> disappear), even though it's still in the arp table:
>

  Is the ip number of the device changing?

Casper.
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