Subject: Re: ioctl command
To: Rajnish Madan <rajnishm@delhi.tcs.co.in>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@asim.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/13/2000 13:37:11
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:30:37AM +0530, Rajnish Madan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to change the arp entry using arp -d and arp -s command.
> But it doesn't allow me to change the Physical MAC address in the
> arp table of my server. It describes the the entry type as permanent and
> no matter what i give MAC address using arp -s, it takes the physical
> MAC address.

Are you trying to change the ARP entry for a local IP address ?
You should not be able to do this.

> 
> I checked up the netbsd.org site but couldn't locate the source for arp(8).
> >From where can i get it?

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.sbin/arp
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