> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:shorewall- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Suffield > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Delete an ARP entry > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:53:42AM -0700, List Receiver wrote: > > > > On my Shorewall boxes, I'm seeing stale arp entries like this: > > > > > > > > (172.16.0.2) at <incomplete> on eth2.14 > > > > > > > > Windows can flush the arp cache entirely quite easily, but I > haven't > > > yet found a command in Linux that will do this. Any gurus out > there > > > know how to do this easily? > > > > > > arp -d 172.16.0.2 > > > > When listed as "incomplete", that command gives me an error of "no > such host" or similar. > > That's not a stale arp entry. That's just the kernel noting that it > has sent out an arp request and never received a response, so it won't > send another before the retransmission interval has elapsed. It's not > an entry in the arp cache. Removing it will not solve your problem, > whatever it is. >
Got it...that makes more sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
