From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 9:46:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kineo.bowdoin.edu (kineo.bowdoin.edu [139.140.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C293837B406 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcowger@bowdoin.edu) Received: from mcfly ([139.140.133.82]) by kineo.bowdoin.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GF17XC00.E3Q; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:46:24 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Cowger" To: "Fernando Gleiser" Cc: Subject: RE: Usage of arp -s Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:47:47 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010616133820.L12367-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thats the issue. I do not HAVE the ip address of the host. Only the MAC address. I tried: arp -s XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 91:02:64:de:58:8f and the command completeed successfully but I cannot ping the host, and I know that it is up and DOES respnd to pings.... .matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Fernando Gleiser Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:39 PM To: Matthew K. Cowger Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usage of arp -s Try using the IP address instead of the host name. Fer On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matthew K. Cowger wrote: > Hi > > I am try to use ARP (specifically the -s flag) to map a MAC address t oa > host name. > After reading the man page, i tried: > > blondie# uname -a > FreeBSD blondie.bowdoin.edu 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Wed May 2 > 22:11:53 EDT 2001 > mcowger@diablo.bowdoin.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BLONDIE i386 > blondie# arp -s mytest 91:02:64:de:58:8f > arp: mytest: Unknown host > blondie# > > So....what am I doing wrong? (Note that I dont want to do this via DNS or > /etc/hosts for other reasons) > > Thanx > > > Matt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message