Re: [Q] Weird ARP entry

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
10 Feb 1998 08:54:10 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980209124109.2794A-100000@neko.binary9.net>
By author: "Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>

Well FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is the Ethernet broadcast address, so that part
is correct, at least...

-hpa

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