ARP table entries / ifconfig needs to be issued twice when moving IP

Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff stdin at niklaas.eu
Tue Jun 21 09:37:26 UTC 2016


Michael Gmelin [2016-06-21 11:25 +0200] :

> As the packets came from host C, this is expected behaviour. Host C had
> the ARP entry cached (or if it wasn't on the same network, some network
> equipment had).

Ok. Thanks a lot for clarifying this.

> What I'm describing is the machine having the IP address configured
> not creating a permanent entry in the local ARP table for its own
> interface.

I hope you will get a response from someone who is more
knowledgable in this than I am.

    Niklaas
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