From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Koski Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:01:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] large ARP cache Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:02:32 +0100 bert hubert wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:52:12PM -0800, David Koski wrote: > > (Duhh!) The question is, is it normal to have an arp cache with entries that > > don't even belong in the network? If not, what needs to be done to keep them > > out? > > This happens if you don't have a default gateway and something in the > network is feeding you proxy arps, telling you 'yes, I can reach > google.com'. > > Add a default route on A to B and the problem will disappear. I had a default route but no gateway as you said! Once I did: route add default gw 1.2.3.4 eth1 The problem went away. And it makes sense. Thanks! David Koski david@KosmosIsland.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/