Gerhard,

Sorry for the late reply...

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:49:47 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> The help for arp says that the -s entry is "permanent". This may mean that
> it survives a reboot... Do you have the entry still in your list after
> reboot ("arp -a")? If so, can you still talk to your device after you
> remove the static entry?

I can't remember which machine (of two possibles) I used for the ARP / PING procedure - one runs under Win2k, 
the other OS/2, and neither of them have that entry now, so at least one of those versions of ARP doesn't keep 
it across a reboot!

And as soon as I'd followed the procedure, other machines on the network could see the device, so I believe 
the PING causes the device to start using the included IP address (the ARP obviously doesn't affect the device 
itself).

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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