[j-nsp] about ARP

[Domiciano alonso]

What you see are "gratuitous ARP".
The routers sends it to the LAN whenever is sees the port going up to
let the rest of the boxes in the LAN its own MAC address
It's a normal and even desired behaviour
Regards.

On 5/25/05, zeng watchthinker <watchthinker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I found a strange problem when testing GE interoperate between 2 routes.
> 
> Our side GE is flapping. When mirrored and capture some packets, it always
> generate ARP request for its own IP address(!?) What will be the cause of
> this problem? It seems not real but it do happen
> 
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