Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] ARP Broadcasts
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From: "Frank Bulk - iNAME" <frnkblk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:40:45 -0600

I operate such a network and that’s totally normal.  I wish there was something like proxy ARP on the CMTS to mitigate that spurious traffic. 

 

Frank

 

From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Acy Nonyxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:27 PM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] ARP Broadcasts

 

I have broadband through my cable company. I unplugged the router and plugged my computer directly into the cable modem and ran wireshark to see what I would see.
What I see most is almost non-stop ARP broadcasts coming from the gateway and going to all sorts of ip addresses, "Who has <ipaddress> Tell <ipaddress>"
Is this normal? Should I be picking this up? What kind of network would result in me getting all these ARP packets?
Thank you.