At 10:57 AM 08/05/2001 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote:
>Glenn Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Why would these arp requests occur as a steady stream, all going to
>> primarily one machine it looks like? This just started today. I
>> usually see an occasional flash of the activity light on the cable modem
>> but the activity light is almost burning steady now. Here is a snippet
>> of output from tcpdump.
This could be much worse...We get all kinds of arp, netbios, smb, and ipx /
spx traffic on our nic from an entire campus network (something like
4-5,000 nodes). Some 100+ packets are "seen" on our nic every second.
Since we never respond to the majority of these packets, it isn't a big
deal and it is normal.
Now if only they would get rid of the netbios traffic....(which our IT
group says accounts for between 40-50% of all network traffic)
Michael
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
