samba - Apr 1998 - Windows95 ARPing like crazy

Hi again,

  I realize this is generally not the place for this question but this is
always where the answers are so here goes. We have a couple of win95 Pcs that
regularly go nuts and arp foreach IP address on their subnet. The resulting
broadcast storm is make even worse because of the inability of our net. admin.
to 1) explain it 2) contain it 3) fix it (not too bright).

I checked the registry entries but have not had any luck yet.

Any ideas?

Greg

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Greg Dickie
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Greg Dickie wrote:
>   I realize this is generally not the place for this question but this is
This *really* isn't the place.
> always where the answers are so here goes. We have a couple of win95 Pcs
that
> regularly go nuts and arp foreach IP address on their subnet. The resulting
> broadcast storm is make even worse because of the inability of our net.
admin.
> to 1) explain it 2) contain it 3) fix it (not too bright).
Are you running HP JetAdmin on the Win95 machines?  We had some serious
problems with ARP storms here at UAB due to a bug in HP JetAdmin that
caused it to attempt to contact every IP address in our class B domain. 
It would start with 1.1.1.1, exhaust the address space, then start over
again at the bottom.

 -john.

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John D. Blair          (sys|net)admin, the university computer center
mailto:jdblair@uab.edu                    u. of alabama at birmingham
phoneto:(205) 975-7123                        (my other car is a cdr)
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