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Michael Wilkinson

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Jul 7, 2009, 5:36:59 PM7/7/09
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I'm new to Utopia, so I'm not sure this traffic is normal, but I'm seeing
a large amount of ARP traffic, more so than I usually see on a network.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Ethernet1
Protocol Pkts In Chars In Pkts Out Chars Out
Other 20 2260 91563 5493780
IP 8026930 2177444614 6534022 2355775862
ARP 15250174 915010440 2 120
CDP 0 0 0 0

(this is gathered at the ethernet interface to Utopia from my cisco router)

Thanks,
-Mike

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Pete Ashdown

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Jul 8, 2009, 2:12:25 PM7/8/09
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Michael Wilkinson <mi...@pox.towerravens.com> writes:

>I'm new to Utopia, so I'm not sure this traffic is normal, but I'm seeing
>a large amount of ARP traffic, more so than I usually see on a network.
>Anyone have any thoughts on this?

There is a lot of ARP on UTOPIA, but it should be negligible to your overall
traffic.

>Ethernet1
> Protocol Pkts In Chars In Pkts Out Chars Out
> Other 20 2260 91563 5493780
> IP 8026930 2177444614 6534022 2355775862
> ARP 15250174 915010440 2 120
> CDP 0 0 0 0

>(this is gathered at the ethernet interface to Utopia from my cisco router)

Can you give me the time spread on this?
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W Woodward

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Jul 8, 2009, 2:17:16 PM7/8/09
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/me blows the dust off xm_general

UTOPIA is rather unique. Its basically a large layer 2 network with
extremely large volumes of traffic flying through. You're just seeing
the traffic from thousands of peers on the LAN.

To my knowledge, it is normal, and should be an overall negligible
volume of data. If it ramps up on you, let us know.


Warren Woodward
XMission

Michael Wilkinson

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Aug 4, 2009, 4:12:17 PM8/4/09
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I've put in a new Cisco 1760 router, simply because the previous router
only had a 10Base-T upstream interface. Here's the stats as they are under
the new router, this is over 3 weeks:

FastEthernet0/0 *** Xmission Uplink ***$FW_OUTSIDE$


Protocol Pkts In Chars In Pkts Out Chars Out

Other 4 1660 186869 11212140
IP 9565731 714844737 8447116 2835180051
ARP 31504605 1890276300 19 1140


On 2009-07-08, Pete Ashdown <pash...@xmission.com> wrote:


: Michael Wilkinson <mi...@pox.towerravens.com> writes:
:
:>I'm new to Utopia, so I'm not sure this traffic is normal, but I'm seeing
:>a large amount of ARP traffic, more so than I usually see on a network.
:>Anyone have any thoughts on this?
:
: There is a lot of ARP on UTOPIA, but it should be negligible to your overall
: traffic.
:
:>Ethernet1
:> Protocol Pkts In Chars In Pkts Out Chars Out
:> Other 20 2260 91563 5493780
:> IP 8026930 2177444614 6534022 2355775862
:> ARP 15250174 915010440 2 120
:> CDP 0 0 0 0
:
:>(this is gathered at the ethernet interface to Utopia from my cisco router)
:
: Can you give me the time spread on this?


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