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Posted by Bill M. on December 23, 2005, 11:12 am
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>I've seen the same thing on some of Comcrap's setups. They have some
>system(s) pumping out constant ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
>messages to potential messages. For example, you'll see 216.100.100.1,
>216.100.100.2... Frankly, I think that they're looking for invalid
>connected systems. Even though your router should be set to ignore
>ping requests,
ARP and ping are completely different.
>it will always respond to ARPs.
If it didn't, you wouldn't be connected to the network. For ARP
requests that don't match the mask, about the only 'response' is to
flash the LED. Big whoop. There are no packets being sent in response
to ARP's that don't match the mask.
>I complained about it
>to Comcrap and they simply denied that the messages exist.
Why complain about something that doesn't cause any trouble?
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Bill
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