Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:08:29 +0100 From: Pieter de Boer <pieter@thedarkside.nl> To: Mats Lindberg <mats.w.lindberg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1 Message-ID: <4D83210D.5070107@thedarkside.nl> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTins89qcvAjd4_x=iZVjR3rMnGaEJUwuMpMAFKny@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=23g1%2BKv%2B4Pmda3-75-r13GaRFu1_Mtofej3RJ@mail.gmail.com> <4D7DFC6F.80008@gmail.com> <AANLkTi=Gx=YZ%2BZr0q%2BFZ8mcbQyGhjZPSYm6de4ZVwSwx@mail.gmail.com> <4D7E0831.4060804@gmail.com> <AANLkTins89qcvAjd4_x=iZVjR3rMnGaEJUwuMpMAFKny@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is > actually connected to arp. > > 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 ? 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.. -- Pieter
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