ARP question

Horms horms at verge.net.au
Mon Oct 3 17:24:34 EST 2005


On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:28:26PM -0400, Murray, James wrote:
> 	
> 
> 	I am setting up Ultra monkey for the first time, and everything
> seems to be working correctly except for 
> one small but important issue. It has to do with the the director machine
> being able to route packets
> to the appropriate real server. On each real server I restrict the loopback
> interface from responding
> to ARP requests (per the how-to doc). However when the director attempts to
> start routing traffic to each real
> server it can't because it does not know the MAC addrress of any of the real
> severs. Due to the fact that I disabled
> the real servers ability to respond to arp requests. I suppose its an easy
> fix to statically set the arp entries of 
> the real server on each director but sense this was not mentioned in the
> how-to I am wondering if I am doing
> something wrong.

It sounds like you might have been a little bit over zelous with
your ARP supression. What exactly have you done there?

-- 
Horms



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