too many Gratuitous ARPs

[Danny Braniss]

> 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

This is not my case, no kernel messages, I see the packets. (im mirrowing
the traffic to another host so that i can 'sniff' it).

the host has indeed two nics, but only one is connected.
The problem - if indeed it is - only appears on this host, and i have
several identical ones, that don't show this.

danny

> 
> 
> 
> 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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