ARP requests on my net?

[Ed Greshko]

> Fine. My machine is querying its gateway to know how to route.
> 
> # route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
> eth0
> 172.17.0.0      *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
> eth0
> default         router          0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> eth0
> 
> And it does it every two minutes, apparently.
> But that has nothing to do with dumping packets, does it?

Use "route -rn" when you post things.  People don't know what IP address
router has.

What does "dumping packets" mean?


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