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Oct 222010
 

Send ARP REQUEST to a neighbour host in Linux

Answer:

The arping command allow you to Ping destination on device interface by ARP packets, using source address source.

E.g.

# arping -U 192.168.1.5

The above command send an Unsolicited ARP request to update neighbours' ARP caches.

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