arp -f

[Man-wai CHANG]

> running arp -f, he shot himself in the foot.  The Linux system no
> longer sent out arp-who-has for the system entered in /etc/ethers,
> just tried to send to aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff, and since that wasn't your
> friends system, the packets went out on the wire and into the bit
> bucket.

But he entered the MAC address of his own LAN card...(ie, the mac
address in /etc/ethers is a real one.  What did you mean by "arp-who-has"?

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