Enabling Gratuitous ARP

Greg Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 19 23:04:58 PDT 2005


On Thursday, 14 April 2005 at 16:10:39 +0930, Adam Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link between
> two FreeBSD machines with a different MAC is proving to be a problem.
>
> We have discovered that in order to make this work we will need to enable
> gratuitous ARP.  Does anyone know how to turn this feature on?

Heh.  Yes, I've run into this problem too, and with your ADSL2 DSLAMs
at that.  I'm still investigating.  Call me next week if we haven't
resolved it by then.

Greg
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