From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 9 8:49:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD65A37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:49:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA77945; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:49:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:49:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200104091549.LAA77945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Scott Johnson Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: arp timeout In-Reply-To: <20010407114436.B1056@ns2.airlinksys.com> References: <20010407114436.B1056@ns2.airlinksys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Is the timeout on the arp cache restarted on each communication with the > device? Or is the cache refreshed every timeout interval whether there has > been activity at all? No. The timeout on the ARP cache is restarted every time an ARP reply for its IP address is heard. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message