Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:47:39 -0500 (EST) 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 Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10101232147060.10091-100000@spider.pilosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <006901c085ae$fae9bd80$0402010a@biohz.net>
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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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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