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Old 11th November 2008
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To fill your arp table, just ping the broadcast address for the subnet. For example: ping 192.168.0.255. That will cause every machine on that subnet to respond, and you will get arp entries for every machine on the subnet.

Check the output of ifconfig for the current broadcast address.
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