FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1

[Mats Lindberg]

No - I was not aware of this, I'll try it, thanks...
/Mats

2011/3/18 Pieter de Boer <pieter at thedarkside.nl>

>  On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote:
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> > So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is
> > actually connected to arp.
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> > My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp
> > requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did
> >> sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=2147483647 (max accepted
> >> value)
> >
> Are you aware of ifconfig <if> staticarp ?
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> I can imagine that the kernel uses some resources for every
> outstanding arp request, meaning that if it's continually sending arp
> requests, it also will use a lot of such resources..
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> Pieter
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