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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:10:20 PDT
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Annoying artifact of the routing code 
Message-ID:  <96Oct10.131026pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:37:58 PDT." <199610100838.SAA19800@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> 

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In message <199610100838.SAA19800@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>you write:
>... invalidate any
>cached arp entries (held by others) for the old address by means of some
>broadcast on the ether concerned. Is such an arp packet defined or is it a
>'Cisco special' ?  If it is a 'standard' mechanism, why don't we use it in
>such cases ?

We do, if you "tcpdump arp" while changing your address you will notice an arp 
packet being broadcasted.  I think Julian was talking about something more 
subtle, where packets get sent with an incorrect source address.

  Bill





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