It's much nicer to "arp -d " a specific host address. Flushing the arp table
seems
a bit harsh and unnecessary unless your IP address is DHCP assigned etc. and
not
static.

AIX 4.3.3 :

[mike@xxxxxx]:/u/mike> arp -h
Usage:  arp HostName
        arp -a[n] [/dev/kmem]
        arp -d HostName
        arp -s ether HostName eth

Under NT it's:

arp -d IP Address

Conversely creating the arp entry is pretty simple:

AIX:

To Create an ARP Entry



arp [ -t ifType ] -s Type HostName AdapterAddress [ Route ] [ temp ] [ pub ]





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Ray [SMTP:mray AT MOHEGANSUN DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:54 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: How do we change which nic on a client adsm contacts?
>
> The IP address is stored on the server in its arp table. You haven't said
> what plateform your server is on (NT, AIX, whatever....) so, you have to
> flush your arp table, specific *to* your platform, then re-aquire the new
> NIC. The easiest way to re-aquire is simple to ping the client; that will
> insert the new mac address -- and the maped IP address -- into the
> server's arp table.
>
> Mark Ray
> Mohegan Sun Resort
>
>
>
>
>
> TSM Group <tsmgroup AT HOTMAIL DOT COM> on 03/14/2002 05:04:05 PM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Mark Ray/MTGA/LNN)
>
> Subject:  How do we change which nic on a client adsm contacts?
>
>
>
> Hello all,
> We recently thought we would try to change which NIC one of our nodes'
> uses
> to do backups.
> From what I'd been able to find on the adsm message boards out there, it
> looked as if ADSM, when initially contacted by a node, traps the IP
> address
> that the node uses and stores that information untill contacted by that
> node
> on a different IP address.
> So when we were finally able to we downed the primary NIC and restarted
> the
> dsmc sched process . ( Thinking was that the client would contact adsm
> with
> the desired IP address and that would then be trapped and everything would
> be fine. )
> But it did not work.
> Does anyone have any ideas?!
>
>
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