Re: arp ?

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Given two NetBSD-9.99.2/amd64 boxen on the same local network, I ssh in from
> client to server. On server the server, the arp entry for the client is
> "incomplete". If I try then to ssh from the server back to the client, I
> have "Host is down". I'm puzzled, as obviously I am typing that command
> over the network. No firewalls are involved in this setup.
> 
> Thoughts? (All started when ftp of packages from the server kept stalling)

server: arp -d client

got things going again. How can it get into this state (several times)?
(client is iwn0)

Cheers,

Patrick