[ale] how to do 'gratituous ARP broadcast'

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	send_arp.c is exactly what I used and It worked the magic !!!

Denny, I took the liberty of forwarding this email to ale at ale.org in case
someone else want to share this great tip from you.

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Denny Chambers wrote:

#Go to http://www.linux-ha.org/download/ and download the Heartbeat
#program. There is a stand alone c program called send_arp contained with
#in that will let you send gratuitous arp broadcasts or you can target
#specific machines. I think the program may need to be updated if you
#want it to work with the 2.4 kernel.
#
#"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.
#>
#> thanks.
#>
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