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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Why are there a lot of ARP traffic in a network?

From: "Pablo Brozovich" <Pmbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:32:04 -0700
That is all broadcast traffic and I ran wireshark from my computer, it is an end point into network.

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From: wireshark.20090520@xxxxxxxxxxxx [wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 23/7/2009 10:02:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Why are there a lot of ARP traffic inanetwork?

In message <239a01ca0b9a$16bbdc80$026a010a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pablo
Brozovich <Pmbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I am looking at a 200-second trace with 10,511 packets, in this case
>there are 7,720 ARP packets (73.45%). Can I take it easy? What can I do
>to reduce those ARP packets in the network's traffic?


Is that 73% of all traffic, or 73% of broadcast/multicast traffic? 7720
ARPs in 200 seconds is less than 20kb/s, which in traffic terms seems
pretty small.


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