From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochen Roedenbeck Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:15:59 +0000 Subject: Re: proxyarp, pppd does not remove the arp entries Message-Id: <41F5112F.9020603@spl-spindel.de> List-Id: References: <41F24B8E.2020600@spl-spindel.de> In-Reply-To: <41F24B8E.2020600@spl-spindel.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Hallo, Is there really no-one around here who knows about "proxyarp"? I don't think it is an configuration issue. Jochen Roedenbeck Jochen Roedenbeck schrieb: > 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >