[Q] Weird ARP entry

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:44:00 -0500 (EST)


A strange ARP entry has appeared in my 2.1.85 system.

Eth0 is configured for a small subnet:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:18:F6:F1 Media:10baseT
inet addr:206.4.67.33 Bcast:206.4.67.63 Mask:255.255.255.224
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:210655 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:196958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:303
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300

Where 206.4.67.63 is the broadcast address for my subnet. But in my arp
cache I see:

Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
206.4.67.63 ether FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF C * eth0

Now, as far as I can tell, this isn't having any adverse effects, but it
doesn't look correct to me.

Is it?

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simple is elegant mrnick.binary9.net nicholas@binary9.net
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