[j-nsp] Opportunistic ARP on Juniper MX?

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> [2014-05-26 09:18]:
> On Monday, May 26, 2014 09:10:20 AM Sebastian Wiesinger 
> wrote:
> 
> > does anyone know if Juniper MX does opportunistic ARP?
> > Meaning, will it send out an ARP request by itself when
> > an ARP entry expires (like Cisco does) or will it wait
> > until it needs to resolve the ARP entry when a packet
> > arrives?
> 
> You mean gratuitous ARP?
> 
> 	http://tinyurl.com/lpc8mcu

No, I mean when an ARP entry for a host expires, will the router send
an ARP request for that entry immediately (like Cisco does) or will it
wait until a packet for that host arrives, meaning that packets
will be dropped until an ARP reply arrives and the entry is resolved.

Regards

Sebastian

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