Re: Broadcast ping and ARP cache

[Scott Long]

Jim Treadway wrote:
> Unfortunately, it appears that a broadcast ping does not add an entry to
> the ARP cache.  Is this by design?  Just curious...

Yes, broadcast ping (in fact, any sort of IP broadcast) is implemented
using ethernet broadcast packets and therefore no arp lookup is
necessary.

Regards,
Scott
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