arp refresh rate

[Peter Kirk]

Wow thanks for the fast reply, I will set up a test environment tomorrow
and see if I can get this to work.

Thanks
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Vince [mailto:jhary at unsane.co.uk]=20
Sent: 18 December 2006 14:01
To: Peter Kirk
Cc: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: arp refresh rate

Peter Kirk wrote:
> Hi All
>=20
> I have a bit of a problem.  We have a 6.1 FreeBSD server with natting
> and firewall rules for the servers behind it.  This FreeBSD server has
> an identical fail over server.
>=20
> The other night we tested the fail over server.  It worked find but
> because the gateway before the fail over server had arp cache "the old
> Mac-addresses" it took about 5 minutes before we could access the
> servers behind the fail over server.
>=20
> Is there anyway that you are able to set the arp cache refresh time?
>=20
Going by this post
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/t
hread/58e7f803747ca34f/674673260bb6e30c%23674673260bb6e30c

you need to set the net.link.ether.inet.max_age sysctl to the time you
want in seconds (default is 20 minutes)


Vince

> Thanks
> Peter=20
>=20
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