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I need to disable the system level ARP protocol to perform some experiment in my ubuntu 11.10 system. So please help me in disabling the ARP module/protocol in my system.

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Are you willing to dive into the source code of linux to disable it? ARP is a critical protocol for IPv4 and IPv6. If you disable it you won't be able to use any IP services from your machine – SecurityMatt Mar 11 '12 at 17:04
please clarify what you mean by 'disabling system-level arp'... what do u want not to work, exactly? – user1055604 Mar 14 '12 at 18:35

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To supress ARP on interface eth0 run the following command as root:

ip link set dev eth0 arp off

To turn it back on again:

ip link set dev eth0 arp on

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but i want to generate ARP traffic from my program on same interface. – subh. singh Mar 12 '12 at 11:09

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