[ale] how to do 'gratituous ARP broadcast'

[Cleveland Flowe]

"Jerry Z. Yu" wrote:
> 
> I cannot find it from my RH62 box. which package it comes from?

The program is /usr/sbin/arping in the iputils package.

> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Cleveland Flowe wrote:
> 
> #"Jerry Z. Yu" wrote:
> #>
> #> anybody has done a 'gratituous ARP broadcast' from a Linux box?
> #>
> #> /sbin/arp doesnot seem to be it?
> #> I am replacing a production box with a new one with the different NIC
> #> (aka, different MAC addr). I want to let the gateway machine see the
> #> the new MAC right away instead of waiting for ARP cache timeout on the
> #> gateway machine.
> #
> #try arping.
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