Linux-Hams archive - December 1998: Re: ARP time too short

Re: ARP time too short

Ignacio Arenaza (nknelu@mail.dy.fi)
05 Dec 1998 15:46:24 +0100


>>>>> "Mihai" == Mihai Stanciu <gthncqm.kjzfq@mx.dy.fi> writes:

>> No, it will not. irtt does not affect ARP.

Mihai> yes, I saw it didn't work :-(. The ARP packets are STILL
Mihai> sent at a machine-gun rate.

Mihai> So, is there any solution to slow down the ARP requests ?

Have a look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4. There you'll find several files
which contain the various timing params for arp. The values specified
there are in 10 milliseconds units (i.e. hundredths of seconds).

73's. Iñaki. EB2EBU

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