[armd] Gratuitous ARP pre-populating ARP caches.
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Mon, 27 August 2012 21:32 UTC
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Hi. The RtgDir review of this document raised an issue, to which I responded as follows. Anyone care to comment on this point? Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> writes: > > 3. Sec 7.1 seems to suggest that Gratuitous ARPs pre-populate ARP > > caches on the neighboring devices. Without an explicit description > > of what a neighboring device is, I would presume that this also > > includes edge/core routers. In that case this statement is not > > entirely correct as I am aware of routers that will by default not > > pre-populate their ARP caches on receiving Gratuitous ARPs. > Right. The spec says "don't do this". But I believe it was asserted > that some implementations do this. That said, I'm not aware of any > such implementations. I would be willing to remove this sentence in > the absence of known implementations of this. Thomas
- [armd] Gratuitous ARP pre-populating ARP caches. Thomas Narten
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