From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755882Ab0CHV7e (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:59:34 -0500 Received: from ipo3.cc.utah.edu ([155.97.131.71]:44434 "EHLO ipo3.cc.utah.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753798Ab0CHV7a (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:59:30 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 573 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:30 EST X-SBRS: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqwSANf/lEubYbWV/2dsb2JhbACTQYdvc6x/AQmER4hZAoJngg8Egxc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,604,1262588400"; d="scan'208";a="109893317" Message-ID: <4B957104.8050207@utah.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:49:56 -0700 From: Tom Ammon Organization: University of Utah CHPC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ARP cache timeout on various RHELs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2010 21:49:57.0098 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B36E4A0:01CABF09] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find and manipulate the ARP cache timeout on RHEL4 and 5. I know that it's not as simple as one single timer, but I was hoping somebody here could offer some guidance on how to get at this info. I'm also interested, if anybody knows, in how/why the default ARP behavior changed between RHEL4 and RHEL5. Tom -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Ammon Network Engineer Office: 801.587.0976 Mobile: 801.674.9273 Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu