Extremely high broadcast rate

gestmng · ‎10-03-2003

Hi, I am having an extremely high Multicast and Broadcast traffic rate on my LAN. We recently installed our Checkpoint FW on a Cluster high availability scheme and the problem started, I dont know if it´s got something to do with it. I had to enable cgmp on the switch for getting the FW to work but now I am dealing with this inconvenient. Any comments?

Thanks, Bye.

P.

sirpa_k · ‎10-11-2003

I dont think so that this has to do with Firewall

Ladislaus · ‎10-13-2003

define "extremely high .. rate"!?!

Use a tcpdump and look at what is actually being broadcasted. The nodes in that cluster might be sending heartbeats to each other, though I would not call that "extremely high rate". You should not have to enable CGMP for getting the FW to work. CGMP is for limiting multicast which otherwise becomes a broadcast.