Code Red

Fri Jul 20 15:43:48 UTC 2001

> > Jeff Ogden wrote:
> > > is causing network problems due to heavy ARP loads when the local
> > > site routers ARP for what turn out to be unused IP addresses.  This
> > > is an issue when there are large blocks of IP addresses behind a
> > > router. It is less of a problem when there is a relatively small
> > > number of IP addresses behind a router (say one class C worth). Are
> > > others seeing these sorts of problems?  What strategies are there for
> > > dealing with this?
> 
> Use smaller subnets (possibly vlans etc) !
> 
> Steve

I don't clearly see how this will help.