From owner-freebsd-net  Tue Jan 23 18:46: 8 2001
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From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
To: Renaud Waldura <renaud@waldura.com>
Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@netzuno.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to send arp request with no other traffic
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Actually answer to original question is here:

http://synscan.nss.nu/programs.php

I am not sure if it works on fbsd, last time I looked at it, it had a few
linuxisms hardcoded...


-alex
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Renaud Waldura wrote:

> An amusing trick to populate the ARP table is to ping the broadcast address.
> Even if hosts do not reply to your ping packet (typically, Windows
> machines), they are entered in the ARP table.
> 
> You still have to send a single packet, but it does all the work.
> 
> --Renaud
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