Thursday, May 10, 2018

welcome back to war! deadline is over! ...back to computing, machines and "disrupt" the "system" ! (after this I'm going hunting the code, ok) Let's read a very good explanation about "timeouts" on ARP packets " keep the other guys' ARP caches from timing out by proactively broadcasting your own ARP announcements. Most Ethernet layers will accept gratuitous ARP responses into their caches without trying to correlate them to ARP requests they have previously sent."
This one's been bugging me for years. Basic question: Is there some reason ARP has to be implemented with fixed timeouts on ARP cache entries? I do a lot of work in Real Time ciricles. We do most...

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