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Gratuitous ARP and ARP Probe

Open ManiAm opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

[Feature Request]

I noticed that the ARP module has a gratuitous ARP method to send out such messages, however that method is never called. When a device boots up, it normally generates a gratuitous ARP message. Both hosts and routers broadcast gratuitous ARP, however some vendors use a reply and some use a request, which really does not make any difference.

I tested this with the following GNS scenario. Interestingly, you can see from the captured Wireshark that Cisco uses reply gratuitous ARP, while the host networking stack uses a request gratuitous ARP.

2019-01-07_19-50-21

ManiAm avatar Jan 08 '19 03:01 ManiAm