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Old 04-14-2009
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Glad to be of help.

What I forgot to mention is that the Linux arping utility can send such an packet, eg
Code:
# arping -U 192.168.1.5
will tell the other devices on the segment that your IP is 192.168.1.5. It's open source, so you can take a few pointers off it, or use it directly from some script.
Last edited by pludi; 04-14-2009 at 06:06 PM.. Reason: Wrong prompt