From: Pascal Hambourg on
Rahul a �crit :
> habibielwa7id <fouad012(a)gmail.com> wrote :
>
>> A note for Rahul, The system will not add those static entries at
>> startup automatically, So add command arp -f on rc.local for example,
>
> You mean /etc/ethers is not read automatically by the system?

It is read if something reads it. It seems that the RARP daemon rarpd
uses it as a database to reply to RARP queries, not to create entries in
the kernel ARP cache.