How to refresh network card buffer?

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Cos wrote:

> Hi all
>
> The background is I have around 100pcs router-like products. they all
> have a fixed IP address 192.168.1.100 and of course different MAC
> address.
>
> I need to connect them one by one to configure.
>
> The trouble is while I disconnect one unit and change to another unit,
> the FreeBSD can not recognize the unit immediately. It need around
> more than 10 minutes to ping 192.168.1.200 successfully.
>
> I can refresh it by "ifconfig ue0 down" and "ifconfig ue0 up", it
> works but I think the way is not smart.
>
> I guess there is something like buffer to record IP and MAC pair has
> to be cleaned. Could anybody advise?

Try

   arp -d 192.168.1.200

as superuser to delete the MAC address from the local ip-to-mac table.

dan feenberg

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