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Document ARP cache issue and workaround #376

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A lot of people hit this so a front and center warning with suggested workaround would seem appropriate.

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This is a safe and immediate helpful fix if merging #351 is problematic.

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This sentence is grammatically confusing...

The general workaround is to use a gateway and send only to devices non-local network address ranges.

Are you saying you can't send packets to an IP address in the same network subnet as your own IP address?

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Only for UDP datagrams.

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The general workaround is to use a gateway and to send UDP packets only to non-local network addresses.

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Change has been made and updated pull request to latest revision.

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Seems good to me

@vicatcu vicatcu merged commit a8d0406 into njh:master Aug 20, 2019
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