I found this in gentoo wiki, and the same configuration in /etc/conf.d/net.example
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Network_profiles_with_arping
I guess, it works like, first you find a specific IP/MAX pair w/ ARP, then a manual configuration according the IP/MAC.


2010/5/8 Adam <adam@jaftan.com.au>
On 05/08/10 15:25, Zhou Rui wrote:
> What I want is finding a gateway out with ARP, and then assign the correct
> gateway/route table,

You cant discover a router with ARP. ARP finds the MAC address of a host
that's associated with a given IP address.

Ways of getting a ipv4 gateway are;
- manual configuration
- DHCP
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_Router_Discovery_Protocol





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BR,
Zhou Rui