On Saturday 31 May 2003 2:17 pm, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > Right, these ARP requests are being directed to my external interface, > eth0, from the Internet - they are not entering my internal network, but > I believe this is the "excess" traffic I see on the cable modem. I say > "excess", because I was not seeing the data lights (traffic) flash as > they have been with our old IP number. But it seems unusual that my IP > has to tell everybody where to go to find out who or where to be routed > - mind you, the IP's doing the ARP request do seem to be coming from the > same IP range, 24.xxx.xxx.xxx, mainly 24.118.xxx.xxx and 24.245.xxx.xxx
IIRC, cable networks often put several subscribers on the same segment. They probably aren't addressed to you, ARP requests are broadcast to everybody on the segment. It will be other people's modems looking for the ISP gateway and vice-versa. > Seems like I ought to let AT$T (soon to be Comcast, love it when they > keep selling themselves, third time now) know what is going on and see > if they think it should be happening..... > > What do you think? It's probably worth asking them, if you can find a tech who understands what you're talking about. But I don't think it's anything to worry about. -- Richard Urwin
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