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Hey there,

I have observed that our Netonix switches kinda flood the L2 Network with 3 "Gratuitous ARP" broadcast packets every 10 seconds.

Seems this behaviour has been hardcoded into /usr/bin/monitor:

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...@switch-..-199:~# cat /usr/bin/monitor
#!/bin/sh

date +%Y > /tmp/current_start_date

while true; do
  #Perform gratuitous arp broadcast to update neighbors
  arping -U $(ifconfig | grep -Eo 'inet (addr:)?([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*' | grep -v '127.0.0.1') -c 3
  #[...]
 fi

 sleep 10
done
...@switch-..-199:~#


Is there a technical reason why the switches kinda aggressively ARP themselves 3 times every 10 seconds, causing some background broadcast noise when running a few dozen Netonix devices on a network?