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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:53:07 +0100 (CET)
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD do proactive ARP refresh?
Message-ID:  <20180318.105307.74674158.sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <201803180938.w2I9cvJs006183@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <3023141521364867@web33j.yandex.ru> <201803180938.w2I9cvJs006183@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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> > Side note: if one has monitoring which does ICMP checks, it will mask the issue because icmp replies don't use route caching.
> > Typical story  when the observer changes the state of an observed object :-).
> 
> Also perhaps why it has not been reported before, as other side effects
> have caused it to be a pretty invisible issue.

The reason I discovered this is because I was running longer (1 hour
or more) iperf3 sessions, and I got some small but regular packet loss
that I couldn't remember having seen before. Which may be because my
previous longer iperf3 sessions had been with FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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