We deal with this issue on the BWA side of the house. We typically set up the client radios to rate-limit broadcasts (yes, there's more to broadcast than ARP, but ARP is most of it) to 7 pps and main radio to as low as 12 pps.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Clouter Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Arp Inspection Rate Limit Hi, [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks for the response. Funny you mention the print server because > that happens to be one device port I need to tweak since it occasionally > exceeds the 15 pps. > We have been fine at 10 for over a year now[1], however it took us a while to figure out that for some bizarre reason[2] 'File and Print Sharing' being enabled actually caused the workstation to flood ping the local subnet looking for printers everytime someone pressed <Print> on their workstation. Similar thing happens under Vista only when you want to add an IPP printer by hand :-/ Cheers [1] we are a university with about 600 staff and 3000 students [2] might be linked to Novell being installed too, but who knows -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: There's enough money here to buy 5000 cans of Noodle-Roni! _______________________________________________ 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/
