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   Message 13,862 of 14,669   
   Ersek, Laszlo to All   
   Re: Broadcast gratuitous ARP and ARP cac   
   02 Jun 12 12:03:57   
   
   From: lacos@caesar.elte.hu   
      
   On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, TDH1978 wrote:   
      
   > On 2012-06-01 23:25:51 +0000, Rick Jones said:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Yes, that is a possible explanation but I could not confirm it from reading   
   > the man pages of arping and arp.   
      
   Could the "arp_accept" sysctl help?   
      
   http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_net_ipv4_conf_eth0_arp_accept.html   
      
   Laszlo   
      
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