On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Robert Schelander wrote:
> When a new unknown station sends an IP packet to me, my station
> sends an ARP request to QST to get the hw_address for the
> received IP. I'm wondering, why it doesn't learn the hw_addr
> automatically by looking at the callsign of the received packet.
Because this is the way IP and ARP works. There is no guarantee
whatsoever that the station that the IP frame came from is the correct
route back. Usually it is but it doesn't have to be. The way I have
understood it, this is a fundamental design decision that makes IP as
flexible as it is.
> The only way to get it work is to
> apr -s 44.143.216.16 OE8TLQ -H ax25
> otherwise arp displays the following:
Why? Doesn't OE8TLQ support ARP ??? If that is the case then there isn't
much else you can do...
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