MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 12:45:01 EST 2005


On 12/2/05, Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> wrote:
> Sorry to top post, but..

  Then why did you?  Your delete key broken?  :)

> Has anybody thought of the arp table?
> Wouldn't that have to be updated when a different MAC address takes an IP.

  True, but ARP is supposed to time out after 20 seconds, IIRC.  OTOH,
 20 seconds can be a long time.  :-)

-- Ben



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