Re: ARP packets usage

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
article <1193265460.173380.238880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Philippe
Signoret wrote:

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I ran Ethereal and captures all packets for 1 minute and 49 seconds.

What network? What is on this network?

TCP 353 70.2%
UDP 15 3.0%
ICMP 13 2.6%
ARP 122 24.3%

Fairly quiet - but without knowing _what_ you are looking at, it is
difficult to say if this is normal or not. For example, if you
are looking at a DSL connection, you are not likely to see any
mono-cast traffic (traffic to/from a single IP address) that is not
directed at your host. But you will _PROBABLY_ see all _broadcast_
traffic, where the router/switch does not know if "you" are the
destination or not.

Is this a normal ARP packet percentage? It seems a bit high to me.

Not enough information. The other question is what operating system
are the hosts running? That may also have impact on the traffic.

Old guy

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