Re: Core router bakeoff?

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>]

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Jason L. Weisberger wrote:

> Is it the 130 then? Who cares? Yes, we read the manual. Yes we called
> Ascend. There was no mention in the manual about the machine
> systematically ARPing every local IP it saw to its MAC. I really don't
> feel this is acceptible behavior or that there is ever a reason to do a
> same-interface recieve and then publish of ARP information, unless you
> want to break a network.

I've seen P50's do similar things.  Of course, I specifically told the
boss "do not buy P50's", so, of course, he had to do it.


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