On Saturday, 08/26/2006 at 07:41 EST, Harold Grovesteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gratuitous ARP's are usually used to allow the registration of a MAC > address into a Layer-2 switch's forwarding data base. In essence, the > gratuitous ARP lets the device tell the switch what physical port to use > to send a frame when the MAC address is encountered as the destination > MAC address in a frame. They are also frequently encountered when a > Layer-2 based virtual address changes host residency, for example > Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, as opposed to Layer-3 based virtual > IP addresses which utilize a routing protocol such as OSPF to report > it's new location.
Grat ARPs are absolutely required. Trying to stop them would be a Bad Thing. The problem (IMO) is with the OAT IP address registration process, not with grat ARPs, per se. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
