Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:03:21 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many Gratuitous ARPs Message-ID: <E1DCCS1-0000LR-Ms@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:40:27 -0800 .
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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? yes > is IPMI enabled? yes > does it have the right address? yes as i mentioned in another message, it was indeed the IPMI, and it's a configurable item, so now it's set at 60 sec., and all is much quieter now. The reason that the IPMI is sending out these arps, is because the big shots that designed the IPMI did not include ARP req. handling. and the world keeps spinning ... danny
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