From fb5181f7a37266eb0331e44eba5f1943bead0ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Bonelli Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:39:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] arping: fix wording and syntax --- pages/common/arping.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/common/arping.md b/pages/common/arping.md index 0477b367a..c00a03dce 100644 --- a/pages/common/arping.md +++ b/pages/common/arping.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # arping > Discover and probe hosts in a network using the ARP protocol. -> Useful for MAC addres discovery. +> Useful for MAC address discovery. - Ping a host by ARP request packets: @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ - Broadcast ARP request packets to update neighbours' ARP caches: -`arping -U {{your_ip}}` +`arping -U {{ip_to_broadcast}}` -- Determine whether an IP address is already in use in the network by sending it ARP requests with a 3 seconds timeout: +- Detect duplicated IP addresses in the network by sending ARP requests with a 3 seconds timeout: -`arping -D -f -w {{3}} {{target_ip}}` +`arping -D -w {{3}} {{ip_to_check}}`