[39700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Code Red
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Jul 20 11:47:48 2001
From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
Message-Id: <200107201543.KAA19776@bluejay.creighton.edu>
To: steve@opaltelecom.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:43:48 CDT
Cc: jtk@aharp.is-net.depaul.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107201615250.6817-100000@staff.opaltelecom.net>; from "Stephen J. Wilcox" at Jul 20, 2001 4:36 pm
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > 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
I don't clearly see how this will help.
