[c-nsp] ARP on ASR9k 4.3.2

Andrew Koch andrew.koch at gawul.net
Thu Jan 16 13:03:25 EST 2014


Hi,

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:32:04PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > We did the same while waiting for the SMU.  The SMU should not be needed
> > for 4.3.2 - the "arp learning local" interface command should be
built-in,
> > so hopefully you are good to go.
>
> RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:cr2(config-
> subif)#arp learning ?
>   disable  Disable dynamic learning of ARP entries
> RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:cr2(config-subif)#arp learning local
>                                                     ^
> % Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
>
> Not in 4.3.2

Bah - 4.3.4 has the fix incorporated.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

>
> > *ROFL* - Sending out gratious arp on a peering exchange lan can
> > blackhole traffic for others - IMHO thats an easy DoS vector - how could
> > that be "fairly"?
>
> "fairly effective"...  "fairly nasty"...  dunno.
>

"fairly minor" - I dropped a word on my initial response.   However, I
would agree with your second choice.

Andrew


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