Re: ARP cache problems / slow connect times in routed mode - Bug #596 opened

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

Matt Ayres wrote:
> Synopsis:
> 
> A user of mine has debugged this issue for me.  It seems a Xen guest in 
> routed mode wants to arp cache any host it connects to with the MAC 
> address FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  The user also identified long connection 
> times due to this. While a remote host is in the arp cache connection 
> times are fast (30ms or so), when it is not it can be well over 1000ms. 
>  They have provided me the tcpdump output that proves this.  They also 
> proved it is due to the ARP cache by statically adding a remote host to 
> the ARP cache and noting that connection times are very low.
> 
> Full debugging information is attached to the bug.
> 
> Bug URL: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=596
> 

I have assigned this by to myself and marked it as INVALID.  It appears 
to be specific to CentOS / Fedora and my specific setup.

Thank you,
Matt Ayres