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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: ARP shows client is given wrong MAC Address for system with 2 NICs
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.1011205135505.8200A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote:
> 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

You can also advertise your new ARP Address. This is typically known as
gratious arp and is used within duplicate address detection. Most systems
will update their cache. You can use arping on Linux to do that (and more).

Greetings
Bernd
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