On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can > > internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP > > requests, while my computer does not answer them. I analysed the data with > > I have a COM21 and I have the same problem. You'll notice that the TX > light on your NIC will never stop. It never used to be a major problem > with my ne2k-pci NIC (until the NIC got toasted for one reason or > another). After that I switched to a 3c905*, which seemed to work great > but would go dead after about 15 minutes (presumably because of the arp > bombardment). I hope it did not get toated because of the COM21: I only like fried chips. I have no trouble with the interface (MACE, PowerMac) and the link is pretty stable until now.
Thanks for the info, Sebastiaan > > My solution was to reset with interface with a cron job every 15 > minutes. It's a total rat-fsck solution, but it works. > > > > > This makes me nervous. 212.127.*.* is my ISP cable modem network. What is > > this, can I stop it? > > > > I'm not sure it comes from one source. If I tcp dump I see many 'arp > who has xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx tell xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' and the ip addresses jump > around all over the place. Not sure how to stop it. > > g > >
