[j-nsp] Outbound ARP policing?

Hannes Gredler hannes at juniper.net
Tue Dec 13 03:52:52 EST 2005


the PFE automatically throttles the number of next-hop
resolutions on broadcast LANs (and hence the volume of outgoing
ARP requests).

Q: does the current outgoing ARP rate cause any problems in
your environment ?

/hannes

Dave O' Meara wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The documentation suggests that ARP policing (over-riding the default ARP policer) is only applied to packets inbound on an ethernet port. Is there any way to police the volume of ARPs outbound to a large internet-connected LAN? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave


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