Re: Http-connection problems

Mark Visser (mark@cal026031.student.utwente.nl)
Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:20:51 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Mike Ford Ditto wrote:

> > I think it is an OS-misconfiguration, so I checked the firewalls
> > arp-cache. There is only one entry at a time!
>
> Note that the "arp -a" command on some versions of Linux only displays
> one of the arp entries. Use "cat /proc/net/arp" to see them all.
> This problem happens for me under Slackware 96/Linux 2.0.0 .
>
> -=] Ford [=-
>

You should upgrade your net-tools if this happens.
It is/was caused by a change in /proc structure.
It first happened to me to, but now running with net-tools-1.3.50-BETA6f
(i know..i can upgrade again to a newer one), and all trouble was gone.
arp -a now shows correct behaviour.

Mark

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