Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:50:19 +0800 From: "Matthew P. Marino" <freebsd@citystamp.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: Joshua Drake <joshdrake@mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP address being switched between 2 MAC addresses Message-ID: <3B8DF03B.52701D1F@citystamp.com> References: <CIEFJJFHBFDIMIFNKPDDKEGDCAAA.joshdrake@mediaone.net> <20010830111315.M29422@k7.mavetju.org>
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If you read your service agreement you'll find you probably don't want to tell them you have a server on the wire. They monkey with addresses just for that reason. The occasional client PC never notices. Helps root out the bandwith banditos. Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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