Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:58:20 -0400 | From | Andrew Purtell <> | Subject | Re: Strange netmasks. |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Now some MiCrO$oFt garbage, that I can't control, executes a variation of > > SNMP which sends ARP packets to every possible machine on the LAN. This > > happens at two-second intervals. > > ARP packets don't cross a PPP link. It must be something else.
To our systems they looked like badly formatted bootp packets. One of our NT machines started broadcasting these at a similar interval - never did figure out why exactly. Firewalling this traffic off didn't affect anything one way or the other.
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