Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: ARP broadcast storms: Bug in MacTCP? Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 19:39:06 GMT Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 11 Three times our network has been swamped by a Macintosh. The Macintosh, running MaTCP and a SMTP client, started generating ARP requests at a rate of 2000 requests a second. This had the net effect (sorry) of making many of the 1000 machines on our ethernet very sick. The SMTP vendor says this is a well-known bug in MacTCP 1.0.1, and it will be fixed in a future release. (1.1?) Does anyone know a fix/workaround? We cannot tolerate this storm. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crdgw1.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett