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INARP

  • From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:50:19 -0400
  • Cc: ion@nexen.com

At 09:09 AM 7/23/96 -0400, Karthik Muthukrishnan wrote:

>
>The Proposal
>------------
>Make it a "MUST" requirement of RFC 1293 compliant routers to INARP once 
>with each of its IP addresses. In the example, RTR 3 would send 2 INARP 
>requests with X.2 and Y.3. RTR1 would respond with X.1 and Y.1 respectively 
>and update its ARP cache with X.2 and Y.3. Similarly, RTR 1 would update its 
>ARP cache with Y.2 and Z.2 as well.
>

I think adding this as a 'MUST' is a bad idea. There will certainly be
instances where multiple PVCs exists between the same two routers and
there should certainly be knobs which can disable INARP; otherwise this
could cause catastrophic problems for routing protocols.

- paul

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