ARP request retransmitting

Peter Jeremy PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Nov 7 09:55:44 PST 2005


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


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