This document discusses using ARP guard to prevent outages at internet exchange points (IXPs) caused by proxy ARP. It provides examples of how to configure ARP guard on a Brocade device to check ARP requests and replies against access control lists, and describes how this could be implemented at an IXP or for other use cases like LTE backhaul or data centers. ARP guard works by dropping ARP packets that do not match the permitted IP/MAC address rules, preventing proxy ARP from associating the wrong MAC address with an IP.