Re: Any arp table size limitations?
Peter Andreev andreev.pe...@gmail.com writes: We are connecting to an IXP, they have tested our FreeBSD 9.1 server and said we can store only about 600 MACs simultaneously. So I'd like to ask if there is any arp table size limitations and if so, how we can increase the limit? I looked at the code and there don't seem to be any arbitrary limits. The code isn't optimized for really large numbers of entries, but 600 isn't what I'd consider large in this context. I ran a simple shell script and had no problems entering many thousands of static ARP entries, so my interpretation from reading the code isn't horribly wrong. I think you need to find out what kind of problems they ran into at 600 entries. As a (maybe-irrelevant) side point, I don't know what you mean by IXP, since in my background the term means Internet eXchange Point, and isn't likely to get anywhere close to 600 ARP entries on a single subnet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Any arp table size limitations?
Thank you Lowell, Yes, that's an Internet exchange point. We have done a similar test and didn't found any problems, I asked on maillist just to be sure. 2013/5/30 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org Peter Andreev andreev.pe...@gmail.com writes: We are connecting to an IXP, they have tested our FreeBSD 9.1 server and said we can store only about 600 MACs simultaneously. So I'd like to ask if there is any arp table size limitations and if so, how we can increase the limit? I looked at the code and there don't seem to be any arbitrary limits. The code isn't optimized for really large numbers of entries, but 600 isn't what I'd consider large in this context. I ran a simple shell script and had no problems entering many thousands of static ARP entries, so my interpretation from reading the code isn't horribly wrong. I think you need to find out what kind of problems they ran into at 600 entries. As a (maybe-irrelevant) side point, I don't know what you mean by IXP, since in my background the term means Internet eXchange Point, and isn't likely to get anywhere close to 600 ARP entries on a single subnet. -- AP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Any arp table size limitations?
Hello, We are connecting to an IXP, they have tested our FreeBSD 9.1 server and said we can store only about 600 MACs simultaneously. So I'd like to ask if there is any arp table size limitations and if so, how we can increase the limit? -- AP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
