ARP question

[Ian Chapman]

Steve Reid wrote:
> I installed wireshark and noticed that I am broadcasting ARP "who has" 
> requests to the world. (about 1000 a minute) I've googled all day don't 
> have any good answers.
> 
> Any help on where to start to fix this would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm Running FC5 and FC6 as a mailserver/ftp/mailman and they both seem 
> to be doing the same thing.

I'm not sure whether you mean "ARP requests" are the problem or whether 
you mean the number of them is the problem but ARP requests are normal. 
It's how the network discovers the hardware address (eg MAC address) 
from the IP address. 1000 per minute seems high to me but then it 
depends on your traffic levels.

-- 
Ian Chapman.