[c-nsp] "IP ARP throttled out the ARP request"

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Vincent De Keyzer <> wrote on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:23 PM:

> Hello,
>
> I have a switch that can't ping anything ; while CDP works fine.
> 
> When I try to ping an address I see in the CDP neighbour (it's the
> same VLAN), it shows in the ARP debug : "IP ARP throttled out the ARP
> request". 
>
> Does anybody know what it means?

after sending a request, IOS will wait two seconds and print the above
message in the debug before it sends another ARP request for a given
destination.

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