I did something similar when I hooked up 3 of my Linksys boxes (modded with OpenWRT). They are running distributed wireless mode (WDS) in order to expand the reach of the wireless netowork and I forgot to enable spanning tree protocol (LAN_STP=1).
Apparently some loops were created within the Linksys's and it made the switches go crazy. After enabling STP, everything was better. On 12/29/06, Brian Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This happened the other day at my work. I thought it was kind of amusing. When the ARP of death hit my laptop (win2k) hit about 60% utilization. I noticed the lights on my dlink switch were going nuts with activity. A quick look in wireshark revealed the network was being flooded with ARP's. The computer from which the ARP o death originated (winXP) had locked up. It actually no longer booted and we had to reinstall it. Even after disconnecting the origin of the ARP from the network we were still flooded with the same ARP request. A couple of other XP boxes kept flickering their display like they wanted to "blue screen" but couldn't make up their mind. The linux machines seemed unaffected except for the network traffic.
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