[nsp] CEF problem on 6509 (native)

Siva Valliappan svalliap at cisco.com
Fri Nov 14 16:54:14 EST 2003



On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

> >    are you doing proxy arp by any chance?
>
> A propos proxy ARP: We have come to the firm conclusion that proxy
> ARP is evil, and we're turning it off on all our routers.
>
> Any chance of having proxy ARP turned off by default? How many
> customers depend on proxy ARP these days?
>

we get beaten up when we change things by default, and we get beaten up
when we don't change defaults.  some days you can't win  ;(

yeah with fewer devices depending on proxy arp, we should disable it, but
i am sure some customer out there will react negatively to it.

> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
>


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