Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:23:31 AM Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > In a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the problematic machine > sends an ARP request, to which the nameserver replies. But the reply is > never received by the asking machine. So says wireshark. > > Could this be

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-12 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 10/12/2012 04:08 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Thursday, October 11, 2012 08:47:37 PM Celejar wrote: >> >> I'm no expert, but my impression is that any machine which is asked to >> connect to some other host by IP address will issue such an ARP >> request, so if I do 'ping x.x.x.x', and x.x.x.x ha

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 08:47:37 PM Celejar wrote: > > I'm no expert, but my impression is that any machine which is asked to > connect to some other host by IP address will issue such an ARP > request, so if I do 'ping x.x.x.x', and x.x.x.x has not been recently > in contact with my machine

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:33:13 -0400 staticsafe wrote: > On 11/10/2012 4:24 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've noticed that, often, after establishing a connection to the local > > network, important entries in the ARP cache, such as that of my > > nameserver, appear as 'incomple

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-11 Thread staticsafe
On 11/10/2012 4:24 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, I've noticed that, often, after establishing a connection to the local network, important entries in the ARP cache, such as that of my nameserver, appear as 'incomplete' and have not an associated hardware address. Connection to these hosts

arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-11 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi, I've noticed that, often, after establishing a connection to the local network, important entries in the ARP cache, such as that of my nameserver, appear as 'incomplete' and have not an associated hardware address. Connection to these hosts often fails. What are the possible reasons why this