Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: Yes, you are right, I forgot about PPP. Many thanks. Also, the ARP table only contain info of your subnet The ARP table only contains information about machines on the directly connected collision domain(s). It's

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Javier Henderson wrote: The ARP table only contains information about machines on the directly connected collision domain(s). Are you sure it's not the same broadcast domain? Yes. The term collision domain predates the wide deployment of switches, and

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-11 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Lun 04 Dic 2006 08:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:26:46AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully

RE: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Hamilton
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 4 December 2006 2:15 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table? On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work? $ ifconfig

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread a
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:26:46AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work?

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:14:44 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote: On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table,

How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread a
My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. How does it work? $ ifconfig rl0:

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread Atom Powers
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. The ARP table is a cache of known ARP-IP addresses. If there are no

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-03 Thread a
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote: On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. The