arp -f

[Man-wai CHANG]

What does this do? MY colleage added a line to /etc/ethers at the server.

aa:bb:cc:dd:ee 192.168.11.6

He then run `arp -f`.

And he set his PC to use 192.168.11.6 in TCP/IP. Now he couldn't talk to
the linux server. SO what happened?

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