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Date:      09 Mar 1999 09:14:01 -0600
From:      Dave Marquardt <marquard@austin.ibm.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max number of arp entries?
Message-ID:  <v5tr9qylmpy.fsf@mojave.austin.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: "Jan B. Koum "'s message of "Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:39:31 -0800"
References:  <19990308203931.B972@best.com>

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"Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> 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


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