Hmm point taken. I hadn't actually thought about the router actually
running out of arp cache space.
>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bryan> Actually it does matter. When Joe user turns off their box
Bryan> it nolonger can answer requests for it's ethernet adderess.
Bryan> This means a bunch of requests for it's arp address. So
Bryan> when someone scans the network you get bombarded by arp
Bryan> requests, and the caches naturally gets trashed durring
Bryan> this. If you know a provider does this you can realy hose
Bryan> up their network by bombarding them with random addresses
Bryan> in their network space. To keep from having this trash a
Bryan> network the router really needs to have enough cache
Bryan> entries to store all hosts on the network. Many routers
Bryan> just can't handle that for a class B network. They really
Bryan> should break their network up into class Cs.
Pat
