[Lilux-help] addresses resolution

[Michel Maria-Sube]

hi,

I'm trying actually to do a very simple network
including two laptops connected with an ethernet cable
(no gateway nor internet access) but I'm so
unexperimented that I need some light from
specialists...  So, my problem is after configurate
interfaces on both machines (using static numeric IP
addresses) is that i don't find any physical addresses
in tables (arp -a return nothing) and I don't know how
arp resolves physical addresses, is there any
automatical way to proceed or should i do it manually
i.e. with command arp -s...and then what address to
put in...well I've a book on TCP/IP but an old one,
they speak about the commanf netconfig which is
apparently no more available on recent linux
versions...Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you in
advance

cheers
M.

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