On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, 'Glenn Johnson' wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:06:12AM -0400, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > It's unlikely that this is a problem given the relatively ARP low rate
> > you are getting.
> >
> > A normal Cable modem "node" may have over 10,000 users.
> >
> > The head-end system has to update it's table of available (connected)
> > IP's almost constantly.
> >
> > If you call the cable company, all you are going to get will be a
> >
> > "yeah, well, this is normal." response...
>
> Well, that may be the case. The thing is though, it is not normal. I
> have had this cable modem service for about a year and this is the first
> time I have seen this behavior. Even today, this morning everything was
> normal (no activity) then at about noon CST the arp requests started
> flooding in.
I'm having the same phenomenon occur...I don't know if its the ARP thing
you are talking about, but all day long gkrellm has been showing around 2k
on ethO (I too have a cable modem). Before last night, that never happened
before. I'd see miniscule rates from time to time, for a moment, but never
anywhere near 1k...
>
>
peace,
Rog
