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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2011 11:46:38 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com>
To:        scubacuda@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)
Message-ID:  <4DDB706E.2090108@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin%2B%2Bt1niAS5S139275ERq_o7VVYAQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <BANLkTin%2B%2Bt1niAS5S139275ERq_o7VVYAQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 5/23/2011 10:46 PM, Rogelio wrote:
> I found that a certain Linux gateway was having a difficult time with
> thousands of ARP entries (about 13K concurrent ARP entries in 10 min
> from ISP subscribers), so I put it behind a Cisco 7201 router and
> added an IP helper to the interface.  Now it seems to be working much
> much better.

Was the rate of ARPs the problem?
Or the size of the ARP table?

Nikos



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