Gratuitous ARP on Vista?

[Polaris]

Hi Experts:

I have noticed some differences on Windows Vista regarding to the gratuitous
ARP: I have a virtual adapter, under Windows XP, when IP Helper function
"IpRenewAddress" is called for the virtual adapter, gratuitous ARP packet is
generated by the system; but under Windows Vista, this seems is not
happening. Does this make sense? Can this be explained?

Thanks in Advance!
Polaris

 

[Bill Frisbee]

Probably because the entire TCP/IP stack of Vista is new from the ground up.

Windows XP's network stack is a bit old (I think it came from Windows 95, or
at least Windows NT 4.0), so the ARP packet may be an older, no longer in
use functionality.

Bill F.

 

[Paul Johnson]

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Probably because the entire TCP/IP stack of Vista is new from the ground
up.

Which begs the question... which BSD-licensed OS did they kype it from this
time? )

Windows XP's network stack is a bit old (I think it came from Windows 95,
or at least Windows NT 4.0), so the ARP packet may be an older, no longer
in use functionality.

I understand it came from OpenBSD, and not a very recent one, at that,
actually.