[OpenIndiana-discuss] Routing and avahi questions

[Gary Gendel]

I have my OpenIndiana box providing wan/lan routing with firewall/nat.  
I was having some really slow wan performance so I started digging in.  
The performance issue was a compromised user account and a machine on 
the internet downloading everything from the account, pegging my upload 
bandwidth quota.

However, in my investigations, I've noticed a few things that was 
wondering about...

Using snoop, I'm seeing a steady flood of ARP request broadcast from my 
ISP.  As I only have one IP address/MAC allowed does it make sense to 
filter out the "not-for-me" requests or doesn't it really matter?  Is 
there even a way to do this without breaking the WAN-side?

The second question is that I noticed that Avahi has bound itself to 
both my WAN and LAN nics.  Is there a way to limit this to the LAN nic?  
Does mdns have a similar issue?  I discovered this by running "bssh" and 
seeing the service both on my bge0 (WAN) and bge1 (LAN) nics.

I know that these are not necessarily OpenIndiana issues, but I haven't 
been able to google anything useful on these topics.  I was hoping that 
I could get some insights here.

Regards,
Gary