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[nv-l] how does netmon interact with the ARP cache?

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Subject: [nv-l] how does netmon interact with the ARP cache?
From: "Freeman, Michael" <mfreeman@netcogov.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:25:05 -0500
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I have noticed that if a device goes down, and then comes back up before netmon “magically notices it”, if you ping the device, the object status will change in NetView. I assume this is because NetView is somehow monitoring the arp tables? We are using NetView 7.1.3 on Solaris and I am kind of curious to know how netmon and the arp cache works. It seemed like in my tests with my network simulator, If I took down 200 nodes, and then brought them up before netmon’s polling cycle kicked in, that if I pinged every one of them (with a script of course), about only 10 or so nodes would immediately have their object status changed in NetView. How does netmon divvy up the workload? Helper threads? Timeslicing ?

 

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