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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: too many Gratuitous ARPs
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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