too many Gratuitous ARPs

[ray at redshift.com]

Depends on what the arps are for.  

On my network router (which is running 5.3), I noticed a lot of ARP messages
that were not as a result of any configuration errors and was able to put a stop
to it by using this control variable in sysctl:

net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0       

Further information can be found here, which is where I tracked down the above
sysctl line:

http://www.freebsdhowtos.com/102.html

Maybe that will help :-)

Ray



At 10:44 AM 3/16/2005 +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
| While debuging something else, im noticing my host sending out
| 'Gratuitous ARP' serveral times per second all the time.
| Q: is this normal?
| 
| btw, the host is running 5.3 and the ethernet hardware is
| 	<Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.35>
| thanks,
| 	danny
| 
| 
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