Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU!swb From: swb@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Strange Network Traffic (Booting a Sun) Message-ID: <8807091410.AA00688@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 9 Jul 88 14:10:48 GMT References: <4356@fluke.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 5 I've been told that the client's ARP request for its own address is to make sure nobody else is using it, and that if someone actually responds the client will refuse to network. If true, that's a nice sanity check. Scott