From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochen Roedenbeck Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:48:14 +0000 Subject: proxyarp, pppd does not remove the arp entries Message-Id: <41F24B8E.2020600@spl-spindel.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org I set up a dialin server with mgetty and pppd. It works in general, but there is a strange problem. I use the option "proxyarp". When the connection is opened, an arp entry is created with the address of the remote client, for example 192.168.76.72, which I checked using "arp -n". All works fine. When the connection gets closed, the arp entry is not removed, as it should. Instead the first number of the IP address, 192, is changed to 191. The arp chache gets longer and longer, and after some time it does not work any more. It is version 2.4.1 of pppd, and Linux kernel version 2.4.21. The distribution is Suse. What can I do? Jochen Roedenbeck