disabling the ARP protocol in linux box

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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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

Disable ARP protocol:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 -arp

Enable ARP protocol:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 arp