[Techtalk] ARP traffic

[Jeff Dike]

subba9 at home.com said:
> It looks like there is a lot of ARP traffic on the Internet again. We
> have seen it gradually subside after the CodeRed worm. Does anyone
> have any idea why this increase in ARP traffic?

ARP, as in Address Resolution Protocol?  I thought that was purely an ethernet
(or at least LAN) protocol, and it didn't go out over the Internet at large.

I know from painful experience that it doesn't willingly cross ethernet 
segments.

				Jeff