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Re: First packet sent?
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] First packet sent?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:21:48 +0100
- Cc: 'eCos discussion' <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <000f01c157ee$8575fe20$090110ac@TRENT>
"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>
> What is the first packet sent when an ethernet interface comes up?
It's ARP - sending a packet to your own IP to check for duplicates on your
net. See arp_ifinit in if_ether.c and
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/arp.htm
Jifl
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