Re: arpresolve

[Phil Pennock <phil_(_dot_)_pennock_(_at_)_globnix_(_dot_)_org>]

On 2001-06-06 at 19:26 +0200, Hakan Olsson gifted us with:
> Typically, one has mistakenly connected two different networks together in
> a hub or a switch, i.e connected the networks on the datalink level. The
> internet will work well otherwise, but you'll get bad effects such as
> this.

Because of these types of warnings, we found that a certain French maker
of networking kit has a switch which leaks broadcast traffic across
VLANs.  :^(   (that's in the firmware revs which don't crash at
_attempts_ to snmpwalk certain parts of the MIB, even without a valid
community)

The warning is useful.  Sometimes as a sign to say "bin this kit" when
the vendor refuses to ack it as a problem.
-- 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.  -- Hume