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Article: Duke's iPhone wireless mystery sparks debate, rants, ponderings and Osmond Brothers nostalgia; Readers, blogosphere weigh in on why some iPhones are messing with Duke's WLAN.(Viewpoint essay)
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- Network World
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- July 20, 2007
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Byline: John Cox
The iPhone Wi-Fi Puzzle at Duke University this week triggered a cyber tidal wave of commentary, complaint, confusion
and even some comic relief at NetworkWorld.com and other Web technology sites.
The problem is that a few iPhones on the Blue Devils' campus-wide wireless LAN (WLAN) sometimes trigger a flood of Address
Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests, as many as 18,000 per second. The flood overwhelms groups of Cisco WLAN access points,
anywhere from a dozen to 30 at a time, taking them offline for 10 to 15 minutes.
As of end of day Tuesday 17 July, Duke recorded 9 iPhone ARP events. The university ...