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Subject: Re: arp(8) performance w/ many aliases assigned to an interface
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On 10 June 2010 06:19, Nick Rogers <ncrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI there is a bugfix/patch for this issue being discussed in
> freebsd-hackers:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg157097.html

Hm, that's just a simple caching mechanism, right? If it matches the
last entry, re-use it?

What if you have a degenerate case of say, alternating alias macs?



Adrian