From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 16:14:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (femail3.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BEA37B503 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from playground.net ([24.157.54.46]) by femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010220001356.BREA12119.femail3.rdc1.on.home.com@playground.net> for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:13:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3A91B703.87E015AF@playground.net> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:14:59 -0500 From: Dany Cayouette X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing ARP cache timeout Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, is there an easy way to modify the ARP cache timeout on FreeBSD? The reason is: I am connected via cable modem (Rogers@home). I have a static IP address assigned. The cable gateway seems to be aggresive in the ARP cache timeout. If my system doesn't generate any traffic, the gateway seems to loose the ARP entry. Since the ARP cache is not timed out on my system, I still transmit packet but don't receive anything. As soon as I forced an ARP request, 'arp -ad' command, things work again... Cheers, Dany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message