arp rarp

[Marcel Kunath]

I ran the following:

arp -s smurf.montiehouse.com <hardwareaddress>
rarp -s smurf.montiehouse.com <hardwareaddress>

/etc/hosts has IP mapped to same hostname(smurf)

The mapping shows up via arp and rarp. Why can't I ping the printer?

bash-2.03# rarp -a
IP address       HW type             HW address
192.168.1.100    10Mbps Ethernet     00:60:b0:05:37:40
bash-2.03# arp
Address                 HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask
    Iface
mail.montiehouse.com    ether   00:00:E8:20:DD:19   C
    eth0
smurf.montiehouse.com   ether   00:60:B0:05:37:40   CM
    eth0


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Marcel Kunath