[39697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Code Red
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Jul 20 11:37:44 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:36:59 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: jtk@aharp.is-net.depaul.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> Jeff Ogden wrote:
> > is causing network problems due to heavy ARP loads when the local
> > site routers ARP for what turn out to be unused IP addresses. This
> > is an issue when there are large blocks of IP addresses behind a
> > router. It is less of a problem when there is a relatively small
> > number of IP addresses behind a router (say one class C worth). Are
> > others seeing these sorts of problems? What strategies are there for
> > dealing with this?
Use smaller subnets (possibly vlans etc) !
Steve
