I am puzzled by a bunch of ARP requests on my network that I captured using tcpdump. Shouldn't ARP discovery requests always be sent to a broadcast address?
I have requests of the type below which seemingly are addressed to a specific mAC address. 00:26:b9:58:d7:2f > 00:26:b9:58:eb:b8, ARP, length 42: arp who-has 10.0.0.36 tell 10.0.3.2 00:26:b9:58:eb:b8 > 00:26:b9:58:d7:2f, ARP, length 60: arp reply 10.0.0.36 is-at 00:26:b9:58:eb:b8 Now if mumble:d7:2f already knew that mumble:eb:b8 was 10.0.0.36 (which it indeed is) then why would it send out an ARP discovery request? I can see that something doesn't make sense here but I cannot figure out what is causing the problem. Any ideas? Has anyone seen this before? -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
