On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:04 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote: > Does this imply a damaged NIC? > > >#arp -a > ? (1.2.3.4) at <incomplete> on eth0 Not necessarily, could just be a bad connection (missing cable, other end down, etc). The link layer needs to be active in order for there to be anything in the ARP cache. Think about it for a second. ;-) -Jim P.