: This is a typical scenario from tcpdump -p (my machine is jeff):
: 15:30:37.455806 arp who-has hunny.INS.CWRU.Edu tell ins02055.INS.CWRU.Edu
: 15:30:37.455806 arp who-has ins02055.INS.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
: 16:27:55.025806 arp who-has hunny.INS.CWRU.Edu tell b64471.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu
: 16:27:55.025806 arp who-has b64471.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
: 16:27:55.325806 arp who-has rabbit.INS.CWRU.Edu tell b62701.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu
: 16:27:55.325806 arp who-has b62701.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu tell jeff.krafty.com
: Is this behavior normal?
It depends on your setup.
Do you use net aliases on this ethernet? If you do you will have to suffer.
net_aliases are broken in 2.0.
If you do not, please send me more detailed configuration of your host
(ifconfig, cat /proc/net/arp, cat /proc/net/route, cat /proc/net/rt_cache).
Alexey Kuznetsov.