Re: Suggested patch (no ARP ping on localnet with -P0)

[Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk>]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> You're not wrong, but the arp-cache is usually populated when it comes 
> time to sending, so sending arp-requests again isn't usually required, 
> although it would require that nmap reads the arp-cache of the system 
> instead. I'm not sure that's available to userland on windows, but it 
> might be. It would still have to send arp-requests for IP's not in the 
> cache though.

It must be available to userland in some fashion as arp -a is implemented.

Rich.
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