Pete Turnbull skrev:
>I was about to reply to Arno's post, and was thinking about (R)ARP while
>having my dinner. It's a bit odd the way it says to "make an entry in the
>ARP table" because that's NOT what you do, exactly. The ARP table on a
>host has nothing to do with providing responses to other things that need
>information in order to boot, it's just used to map MAC addresses (Ethernet
>addresses, typically) to IP addresses when talking to other hosts known by
>IP address. But I'm sure it's just a case of Calcomp getting the
>terminolgy slightly wrong.
Well, it certainly does the trick for Intel print servers.
To set the IP address on a Netport Express, you first give it an IP through
the "arp" utility, then ping it, which will make the Netport inherit the IP
with which it was pinged. Quite ingenious.
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Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 01:23:58 GMT