[c-nsp] unknown unicast flooding - particularly regarding fhrp's

Lee ler762 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 13:22:55 EST 2013


On 1/21/13, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
> Arp timers are central, bridge timers are more distributed
>
> Arp timers I believe are specific to svi/bvi/routed interfaces, bridge
> timers I believe are more global and may not be vlan specific
>
> Those 2 items would lead me to think arp timers would be the best place to
> adjust

What happens when the router doesn't have an arp entry?  When I ping
an idle host I don't get an answer to the first ping.  So if you set
the arp timeout to 5 minutes does that mean the 1st packet to a host
that's been idle >= 5 minutes is dropped?

Thanks,
Lee


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