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|    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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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