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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:19:22 +0200
From: J65nko BSD <j65nko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Enabling Gratuitous ARP
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On 4/14/05, Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> In a particular network scenario we have, swapping an ethernet link betwe=
en
> two FreeBSD machines using the same IP and a different MAC is proving to =
be
> a problem.
>=20
> 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?
>=20

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP and
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dcarp&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0&man=
path=3DFreeBSD+6.0-current&format=3Dhtml
It looks like carp is available in FBSD 5.4

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