Hello,

Please consider including upstream commit 
08e34eb14fe4cfd934b5c169a7682a969457c4ea in the next v3.2.y release.
It was included upstream as of v3.3-rc1.  It has been tested and 
confirmed to resolve http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1154608 .

commit 08e34eb14fe4cfd934b5c169a7682a969457c4ea
Author: Laszlo Ersek [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Dec 11 01:48:59 2011 +0000

     xen-netfront: delay gARP until backend switches to Connected


Sincerely,

Joseph Salisbury