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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Mark Hobley    
   wrote:   
   > There is another strange thing I noticed. Why does miranda make an   
   > arp request for venus at the end of the exchange? I would have   
   > thought that miranda already knows the mac address of venus, because   
   > she has just been communicating with it.   
      
   If it happens all the time at the end of the exchange, that would be   
   odd.  If you just see it once and a while, that stems from ARP   
   maintaining a cache, and periodically refreshing the entries.  ARP   
   does not see or know that traffic is being exchanged successfully,   
   thus the periodic refreshes.   
      
   rick jones   
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