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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:08:29 +0100
From:      Pieter de Boer <pieter@thedarkside.nl>
To:        Mats Lindberg <mats.w.lindberg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1
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On 03/18/2011 09:35 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote:

> So - after a while I've made some observations. My problem is
> actually connected to arp.
>
> My config is very static so basically I want to turn off arp
> requests. Somewhere in the startup scripts I did
>> sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.max_age=2147483647 (max accepted
>> value)
>
Are you aware of ifconfig <if> staticarp ?

I can imagine that the kernel uses some resources for every
outstanding arp request, meaning that if it's continually sending arp
requests, it also will use a lot of such resources..

-- 
Pieter






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