Hey, guys.  Have an Ubuntu box acting as a router for some subnets.  I 
have one VLAN, 1302, on which subnet 192.168.200.0/24 resides.  The 
network looks a bit like this:

[192.168.200.12] <-1302 VLAN->[switch]<-1302 VLAN->switch<-1302 VLAN-> 
[router @ 192.168.200.1]

The link is getting utterly spammed with ARP requests for 
192.168.200.12.  Tens of thousands a second.  AND it's also getting 
spammed (at a much reduced rate) with ARP responses.  That, in-and-of 
itself is already pretty confusing.  But what trumps it is the fact that 
the Linux box *already has 192.168.200.12 and the corresponding MAC in 
its local ARP table*.  Thus precluding the need to even make ARP 
requests, much less tens of thousands a second.  The box has been 
booted; it made no apparent difference.

W. T. F.

I'm kinda stumped on this, and would gladly accept any ideas...

Thanks,

-Ken
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