[ale] arping causing problems with my laptop

[Geoffrey]

Geoffrey wrote:
> I've got Fedora 10 installed on a laptop with a pcmcia network card. 
> When I attempt to activate the card, I get an error complaining the ip 
> address I'm trying to use is in use by another device.  I know it's not, 
> but can't figure out why it's doing this.  I've figured out that the 
> command that is generating the error is:
> 
> arping -q -c 2 -w 3 -D -I eth1 172.16.255.106
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


If I remove the '-q' (quiet option), then arping returns 'Interface 
"eth1" is down'.

No kidding, I'm trying to bring it up...


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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