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[Bruce Cole <bcole@cisco.com>]

> >You are missing: rate limiting.  Routers B & C need not transmit multiple
> >NHRP request packets.  They can drop NHRP packets which exceed whatever your
> >desired rate is.
> >
> >The benefit of option (c) is that your IP traffic is not delayed until
> >address resolution (or worse - VC establishment) has completed.
> >
> 
> What I was asking was if, by router A forwarding the initial IP packet 
> (that initiated the first NHRP request) to the transit router B, 
> could this also trigger router B to initiate another NHRP request?

I was answering that yes this could happen, but rate limiting of NHRP
traffic could still cause router D to only receive 1 request.