Re: Must pppd be run by root?
Craig Sanders said:
> I thought only root could add entries to the arp table?
>
> in fact, i just tried setting an arp entry as 'cas' and got:
>
> SIOCSARP: Operation not permitted
Well, I guess I have no explanation, then. But it's working for me. Perhaps I
ran it as root once, and the other machines on the network all remember the
address that was being arp'ed for?
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