According to Jan de Jongh: While burning my CPU.
> 
> Richard Adams wrote:
> 
> > route add <host> mss 256 window 944 irtt 5000 <ifc>
> > Add a route to host with a maximum Transmission size of 256 with a window of
> > 4 packets and a Initial round trip time of 5 seconds.
> > man route will explain.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just curious. Does 'irtt' indeed affect this? According to 'man route'
> [on a RH 5.2 system] it only affects TCP connections.
> Does it also work on ARP?
> If so, the manual page should be update IMO.

You have a good point, it would seem i am incorrect in saying it will help
with arp requests, possably the beter explanation is the best OM is using
mode VC. Like suggested by someone else here on the list.

I use datagram and never have seen this problem.

> 
> >
> >
> > You could check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/arp_* also, but the standard settings
> > should be ok.
> 
> Hmm, don;t have this one... Is it 2.1'ish [running 2.0.36, no patches]?

I'm running 2.0.36-pre12 at the minute.

> 
> 73,
> Jan
> 


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Regards Richard.
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