That cryptic console message means what it says, and I agree that it's hard to understand. I think it *should* say that you've just gone down the rabbit hole, and the next stop is the Mad Hatter's tea party. That's how it felt when I was trying to debug what was happening as a result.
Here's an NSP thread where this was discussed. As noted, this is apparently fixed in later ASICs (sup720C/CXL): http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2007-February/038465.html -Charles On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:56:33AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was messing around with rate-limiting ARP resolution on a 6500 > SUP720-3bxl. After entering "mls rate-limit unicast cef glean 250 > 50", IOS printed this message on the console: > > %Packets requiring ARP resolution will be subject to the output ACLs of the > input VLAN > > Uhhhh, duh? I would hope that traffic would always be subject to the > input VLAN's output ACL, since that would be how one would expect > ACLs to work - ie, that they actually do something.... I can't > imagine that this means to imply that output ACLs only work when glean > rate-limiting is enabled. > > Google finds nothing on this message - anyone have any info on this > curious bit? > > > -- > Ross Vandegrift > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who > make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians > have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine > man in the bonds of Hell." > --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
