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From: SRA@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Rob Austein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: NFS Performance through Routers
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Date: 22 Mar 89 08:39:00 GMT
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Something we've occasionally done when experiencing ARP storms is to
set up a PC or similar expendable machine ANSWERING the ARP requests
for the incorrect broadcast address (and throwing the resultant
forwarded packets on the floor).  Besides providing a sink for the
traffic and thus calming the storm, this provides us with a good way
to monitor exactly which hosts are using the wrong address, so that we
can go in with the debuggers and service calls and icepicks with some
assurance that we know who the culprits are.

Tasteless, but it works....

--Rob