From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 9 7:14:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ausmail1.austin.ibm.com (ausmail1.austin.ibm.com [192.35.232.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02266150A9 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 07:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@austin.ibm.com) Received: from netmail.austin.ibm.com (netmail.austin.ibm.com [9.53.250.98]) by ausmail1.austin.ibm.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA15042 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:08:42 -0600 Received: from mojave.austin.ibm.com (mojave.austin.ibm.com [9.53.150.76]) by netmail.austin.ibm.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA79124 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:14:05 -0600 Received: (from marquard@localhost) by mojave.austin.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.7-client1.01) id JAA38378; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:14:01 -0600 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max number of arp entries? References: <19990308203931.B972@best.com> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 09 Mar 1999 09:14:01 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Jan B. Koum "'s message of "Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:39:31 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.2/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jan B. Koum " writes: > I could not find the limit in the kernel on the max number of arp > entries. I bet I am not looking in the right place :( > > Is there a limit? Nope. ARP is part of the routing table, and the routing table grows dynamically, mostly without bound. Yeah, you could run out of kernel malloc() space, but that limit is in malloc(), not the route table management code. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message