In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0207161057250.3736-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Wojc
iech Puchar writes:
>how to (if possible) turn off automatic ARP search on ethernet interface,
>so only hosts entered in /etc/ethers will get data from host.
>
>
ifconfig interfaceN -arp

But I don't think that /etc/ethers doesn't do what you think; you have to
use the arp command to create the entries you need.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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