Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:13:15 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Joshua Drake <joshdrake@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP address being switched between 2 MAC addresses Message-ID: <20010830111315.M29422@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <CIEFJJFHBFDIMIFNKPDDKEGDCAAA.joshdrake@mediaone.net>; from joshdrake@mediaone.net on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:57:59PM -0400 References: <CIEFJJFHBFDIMIFNKPDDKEGDCAAA.joshdrake@mediaone.net>
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:57:59PM -0400, Joshua Drake wrote: > connected via a cable modem. It works great until my ISP's gateway switches > the MAC address associated with the IP address. It switches between 2 MACs > on a regular basis, and when it does so, makes my web server basically Why do they do that???? Call them and tell them not to do that :-) In the mean time, you can set the time-out of the arp cache from 20 minutes (1200 seconds) to say one minute (60 seconds in case you're not good at math :-) to the net.link.ether.inet.max_age variable with sysctl: sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=60 Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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