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14 years ago

NicheStack TCP Client not working with some servers

I've been trying to talk to an Arecont IP camera via a TCP socket client on a BeMicro Nios2 app. The connection to the camera always failed to establish, although it was ok if I substituted t...
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14 years ago

This is probably not the ARP reply, but a gratuitous announcement. When a link is established, each partner can send such a packet to announce their MAC and IP on the network. What is the destination MAC address (in the Ethernet header)? If it's all FFs then it is a gratuitous announcement, and not a reply to an ARP request.