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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ARP request retransmitting
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On Mon, 2005-Nov-07 14:40:43 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>Do you have any information on what other operating systems may have done 
>in terms of tweaking ARP for improved responsiveness?

Solaris 8 and 9 appear to re-transmit ARP requests every second or so
even when they know the response :-(.  This does make for a noisy network.

-- 
Peter Jeremy