before you start to bug your cable company about arp packets you should know
what they do.
An ARP reply packet contains the hardware and protocol address of the
machine being booted so that other machines can record its address
resolution for future use.
I have this same issue but I have a dsl and a local network I unpluged the
dsl from the linksys router and the arp packets were still being brocast so
no worry if you have a local lan.
Brandon Caudle
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15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)
>From: Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 16:43:45 -0500
>
>On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:24:30PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I
> > noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming
> > across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I
> > am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is
> > about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking
> > pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could
> > someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from?
>
>I installed tcpdump and used that to monitor the interface. I am
>getting a steady stream of arp requests. I do not remember ever seeing
>this before. Is this something I need to bug the cable company about?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Glenn Johnson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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