Re: Arps and grat arps was (RE: tsv-dir review ofdraft-ietf-vrrp-unified-spec-02.txt)

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:27 PM, don provan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> But it doesn't really matter: all routers *can* send gratuitous
> ARP messages for the VR. The VR ARP information is constant: it
> does not change when the VRRP master changes. No black hole would
> be created: all the entries map the VR IP address to the VR MAC
> address. The current master is the node that receives all packets
> sent to the VR MAC address no matter what node actually distributed
> the VR ARP mapping.


Won't you blackhole the traffic if you do this on a LAN composed of
MAC-learning switches?

 - Mark

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