[c-nsp] ARP entries from another subnet

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Wed May 31 16:55:31 EDT 2006


Hi,

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:42:09AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 	I find it frequently used to drive up the CPU load on various
> cisco devices when it shouldn't be used.  Watch that CPU usage come down
> when you disable it, but if anyone has the wrong netmask they may
> 'break', or if you have any silly routes that say:
> 
> ip route 1.2.3.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0
> 
> 	they won't work anymore either, but you likely didn't mean
> to do that anyways.

Which is why I strongly hope that Cisco will eventually turn *off*
all these "helpful" features in the default setting.

Why?  Because it hides broken configurations elsewhere.

gert

-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de


More information about the cisco-nsp mailing list