You can give your computer a static ARP entry to let it reach the device if you know the full MAC address of the device but you won't know that so you probably just have to do what you did.

Good idea. I just tested with a static ARP entry on a Windows server in VLAN 100. Still couldn't ping. I'll have to ask them about storm control.

The primary method for protecting an ARP cache is to make it static. In other words, the ARP table is made unchangeable, and the device is restricted to communicating only with those devices already ...

S == static P == publish (i.e., explicitly added by an arp -s command) Other addresses may be static as well as the one indicated above, but these entries were picked up as a response to network ...

HD said he rectified the problem by setting a static ARP entry and notifying the ISP. The site now appears to be back to normal. HD Moore founded the Metasploit project five years ago.