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josegonzalez on Dec 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a blac...

A ops friend of mine also saw this exact issue last week - same conditions as well - so this was also fresh in my mind.

He ended up disabling arp caching though, rather than clearing it.

daveloyall on Dec 10, 2014 [–]

So his machines issue a WHO HAS ...? request and wait for a response before every outgoing packet? ...

ansible on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

So his machines issue a WHO HAS ...? request and wait for a response before every outgoing packet?

Yeah, that seems like a really bad idea. That will drastically increase the latency and cut throughput.

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