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SubjectRe: Running Ethernet without ARP
linux-os wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> man netdevice says:
>> "IFF_NOARP No arp protocol, L2 deswtination address not set".
>> Is it possible to run ptp Ethernet link between two Linux routers this
>> way? I would like to run the link with two constraints:
>> 1) no ARP protocol used
>> 2) The link should continue to work even if root access to one
>> computer is
>> inaccessible and the NIC in the other one is replaced without changing
>> it's MAC (for example because it doesn't support MAC change)
>>
>> Cl<
>
>
> ARP means address resolution protocol. That's how one machine
> learns about the MAC (Hardware) address of another so it can
> communicate with it. Without ARP, you need to send / receive
> broadcast packets (Like M$ Netboius). This means that everything
> is received by everyone on the LAN and needs to be dumped on
> the floor by everybody except the intended target.

or somehow a static table can be built.
not sure what the point would be, but I cannot see anything that would make it impossible.

regards,
pedro venda.

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