A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks

sspeckx about 10 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on labs.ripe.net

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throw0101d•about 4 hours ago

ARP is not an issue at smaller scales, but at larger ones it can cause problems. Reducing the L2 broadcast 'blast radius' is one of the touted benefits of EVPN (which use may be worth considering once you get above ~20 switches):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_z37Rq7qgY

inigyou•about 3 hours ago

Saw this in IETF already but it's not clear why it's useful especially as the old path still needs to be implemented for compatibility. TFA is obviously LLMslop, which is very disappointing from RIPE.

alhidade•about 5 hours ago

> That's real, but it understates the problem.

It's all so tiresome.