Re: Gratuitous ARP and Solaris 10

Darren Reed <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:37:26 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
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Jesus Cea wrote:
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> Hi, everybody.
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> My hosting requires that I disable the gratuitous ARP packets my Solaris
> servers are sending every 5 minutes (for detection of address
> duplication).
>
> Disabling gratuitous ARP at the kernel level seems to have unexpected
> consequences when mixed with Solaris 10 Zones, so I rather prefer to
> avoid it.
>
> So I was wondering if IPFILTER could filter outgoing broadcast ARP
> replies (Gratuitous ARP). I don't find anything useful in the docs.
>
> Thanks for your time and attention.
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Darren