On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, F. D. Johnson wrote:
> Hi Folks, can anyone point me in tthe right direction ?
>
> My system (Suse6.3), when initiating any tcpip/radio session sends out 3
> very rapid ARP requests
> then, more often than not, times out before the remote end has had chance
> to reply.
>
> Can I lengthen the ARP timeout ?
Yes, through the proc interface. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt
section Network Neighbor handling. The parameter you want to adjust is
retrans_time.
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