From: boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org   
      
   Hello,   
      
   Barry Margolin a écrit :   
   >   
   > "Gratuitous ARP"   
   > usually refers to a machine sending an ARP query for its own IP.  IP   
   > stacks often do this when an IP is assigned to a NIC (e.g. when the   
   > machine is booted), to reset the caches of other machines on the network   
   > (in case it has replaced a previous machine with the same IP).   
      
   And verify that the IP address is not assigned to another node.   
      
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