cRIO Imaging Tool trouble

[linuxboy]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Some laptops don't handle the cRIO IP changes/reboot well.

It often helps to connect your laptop to the cRIO through a network switch rather than directly. The network switch remembers the connection to the cRIO longer before aging it out, lasting through a reboot, while some laptops see the cRIO disappear immediately and break off the connection right away.

Just wondering, since I like to know the details of what is actually going on, is the ARP table time to live on switches higher than on computers? Does windows just clear the ARP table when a cable is unplugged? Or am I misinterpreting the switch remembering the cRIO as an ARP thing when it really isn't?

Oliver