Re: Linux ARPD -- neighbor table overflow

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jeff Adam wrote:

> I have run into a problem recently with arp table size limitation in the
> Linux kernel.
>
>
>
> A bit of History
>
>  I have been using the same box as a firewall for past couple of years
> and it has performed flawlessly Linux 2.4 / iptables but every couple of
> months the number of nodes on the LAN increases by 20 to 60 usually on
> the high end of that range we are already beyond 500 computers
> approaching 600 with plans to add 40 to 60 additional computers already
> being discussed. We have recently developed a problem with neighbor
> table overflows on the firewall during peak hours.
>
>
>
> I believe I have the problem repaired I recompiled the kernel with arpd
> support and netlink and installed arpd and made some changes in /proc
>
> Some other issues developed with arpd that were unexpected
>
>
> the problem is all of the documentation I found on arpd was rather dated
> including one written in 2001 that claimed the package (arpd) was far
> beyond abandoned by the upstream maintainer. im sure networks with more
> than 256 nodes are not that uncommon. My question is what experiences
> have other readers of the list had with this issue and what other
> solutions are there besides arpd for this issue.
[I don't know what the binary stuff was at the bottom of your message,
that's what was forcing it to base-64- please fix it before responding.]

Have you seen:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg251771.html

Paul
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