Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: NFS Performance through Routers Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 89 20:51:23 GMT References: <237@alux2.ATT.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 8 You're quite right. I meant you should set ipforwarding to 0 on machines that aren't gateways. If you do it on a machine that is a gateway, it will stop gatewaying. You get broadcast storms when every machine on your network tries to ARP the broadcast address. If you turn ipforwarding off on the machines that aren't actually gateways, then at least you cut down the number of machines participating in the storm to just the gateways. On most networks this is a very worthwhile gain.