From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   TDH1978  wrote:   
      
   > Does anyone know why Y will not update its ARP cache when receiving a   
   > broadcast gratuitous ARP request?  Thanks much.   
      
   Perhaps because if Y added information to its ARP cache for any old   
   broadcast it saw, which wasn't a request for its own IP address, it   
   could very quickly have a very large ARP cache.   
      
   Is your timing really that tight that you cannot affort the time it   
   would take Y to ARP for X when Y wanted to start sending traffic to X?   
      
   rick jones   
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