On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:39:15PM +0300, Amir Sela wrote:
An ARP request? What for? Is it to find the MAC of the default
gateway? ARP maps the MACs into IPs, doesn't it? An ARP request would
send the MAC address and expects to get in reply the IP that correspond
that MAC, isn't it?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:57:35PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
You are right that when I ping x.x.x.x I do know the IP address.
Yet according to the DSL-HOWTO/appendix.html
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. Converts MAC addresses to IP
addresses.
The way I read
