Hi, I am trying to find information on controlling the ARP packets for for the 10GBE block. On the BEE2, at least, ARP queries for the local 255 IP addresses are transmitted about 10 times a second. Not a big problem, but it would be useful to know how or if this can be adjusted.
schubert% sudo tcpdump -i eth1 | grep arp tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 11:27:12.627683 arp who-has 10.1.50.198 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 11:27:12.727738 arp who-has 10.1.50.199 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 11:27:12.827791 arp who-has 10.1.50.200 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 11:27:12.927849 arp who-has 10.1.50.201 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 11:27:13.027899 arp who-has 10.1.50.202 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 11:27:13.127960 arp who-has 10.1.50.203 (Broadcast) tell 10.1.50.23 ... Sincerely, Oren Milgrome University of California - Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab 601 Campbell Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 mobile: 510 368 6857 office: 510 642 5509 lab: 510 642 0381 fax: 510 642 3411 email: [email protected]
