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Old 11th November 2008
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Phoenix,

As in the OP's case, suppose host A has an entry in the arp cache for host B. B changes its IP before A's arp cache expires.
Now if A tries to send a packet (using the stale cache entry) to B then what will happen?
And is it documented or implementation dependent?

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