Rahul, On 7/13/2010 12:04 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote:
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?
No, the kernel regularly refreshes the entries in the ARP cache with unicast requests. If that fails, then it sends the expensive broadcasts.
Patrick _______________________________________________ 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
