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Subject: Re: too many Gratuitous ARPs
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Danny Braniss wrote:
>>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       


is it an IPMI motherboard?
is IPMI enabled?
does it have the right address?