Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:15:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:15:10 -0500 Received: from web20308.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.226.89]:24586 "HELO web20308.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:14:53 -0500 Message-ID: <20011206021449.70021.qmail@web20308.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:14:49 -0800 (PST) From: Q A Subject: Re: ARP shows client is given wrong MAC Address for system with 2 NICs To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qarce@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks, but I am not moving the IP from one to the other. I am just saying it doesn't matter _(A) does not have to be eth0. Try setting up a system with 2 NICs and follow my notes. I have checked another system with a normal 2.4.3 kernel. Thanks for yours and everyone elses help. Q --- "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > [SNIPPED...] > There is an ARP cache, always has been, always will > be. This is so > an ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) probe doesn't > have to occur for > every data transmission. It is presumed that an IP > address, including > your own, won't jump around from device-to-device. > > You are moving your IP address to another device > (MAC address). What > do you expect? > > You can delete the old entries from your ARP cache, > but it has to > be done for every system that would be affected or > you can just wait > for the ARP cache entry to expire. > > /sbin/arp -d ipaddress > > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine > (799.53 BogoMips). > > I was going to compile a list of innovations > that could be > attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that > Ctrl-Alt-Del > was handled in the BIOS, I found that there > aren't any. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/