Excessive ARP Broadcast traffic from DG

I am receiving 170 meg worth or broadcast packets per day from the default gateway.

These are mostly requests "Who has... Tell..."

Does anyone have any ideas? I find this very odd and im not sure what happening is correct.

If any one can shed any light on it i would be greatful.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by schiller

I am receiving 170 meg worth or broadcast packets per day from the default gateway.

These are mostly requests "Who has... Tell..."

Does anyone have any ideas? I find this very odd and im not sure what happening is correct.

If any one can shed any light on it i would be greatful.

Don't worry about it, normal part of cable network operation and quite harmless. The broadcasts don't even use up your bandwidth either usage allowance or speed of download.

Originally Posted by Ignition

Don't worry about it, normal part of cable network operation and quite harmless. The broadcasts don't even use up your bandwidth either usage allowance or speed of download.

It's a normal part of pretty much any IP network.

Thanks.

I'd not noticed it before, its a significant amount of data.

[Toto]

Originally Posted by schiller

I am receiving 170 meg worth or broadcast packets per day from the default gateway.

These are mostly requests "Who has... Tell..."

Does anyone have any ideas? I find this very odd and im not sure what happening is correct.

If any one can shed any light on it i would be greatful.

170 Meg, can you be more specific, that seems extremely high for ARP traffic?

[Matth]

About double the typical 1KB/s background that I saw (before router), if that's over a full 24H.

If you are trying to monitor, and the program isn't able to filter it, then it's very annoying - the easiest way to hide it is to use a router, even if you only have one PC - the router also makes a very good first stage filter against any other background junk.