Has anyone tried ebtables and the limit target to control the rate On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 00:09 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Alex schrieb: > > Now the thing is that the load average goes up to 30 and the gateway > > doesn't even respond to ping after a while. > > The arp-requests are not only for ips that are assigned to hosts but > > even for un-allocated ips in the same subnet. > > Ah. Classical problem. There are only two realistic explanations for it: > - the source of the arp flood is scanning the local net > - the source of the arp flood has been infected with a virus. > In my experience, only viruses generate real floods, scans are much more > friendly to the network. So just clean the viruses from the flooding > machines. > > > Maybe dividing into multiple vlans would be a better idea? > > Yes, that would somewhat help, but not solve the problem completely. > Besides, I'd go for fixing the real problem instead of some symptoms. > > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
