A Digital Garden - frequent growth but a bit weedy in the back corner
GratuitousARPAmbiguousTerminology is in public.mdIt has five bullets, each linking to where the topic is discussed:
- requests, replies or both;
- form or purpose;
- gratuitous request or announcement. It also notes that Wireshark’s own announcement flag is narrower: a gratuitous request with Target MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00.
- probes called gratuitous;
- what these notes use.
Links to the new topic - GratuitousARPMessages: under the “Known as gratuitous ARP” line. - ARPAnnouncement: under its first line. - ARPProbe: under the line that calls a probe “gratuitous”. - UnicastGratuitousARPReply: a new line saying it’s not always gratuitous in the unsolicited sense. - Private GratuitousARPMessages: under the author’s comment quote.
Two new source topics in public.md, next to 20261007T080815:
- 20261024T081249: RFC 5944, §1.6 and §4.6.
- 20261024T081250: Wireshark’s packet-arp.c.
The “replies alone” claim in the collating topic has no @ref. Its source, 20261006T200503, is in private.md, and a public topic can’t link there.