On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> This commit fixes the problem by increasing the MAC learning timeout from
> 60 seconds to 300 seconds.  According to my reading, Linux uses a 60-second
> ARP timeout, old versions of Windows use 2 minutes, and new versions of
> Windows use 45 seconds.  FreeBSD and the derived Mac OS use 1200 seconds by
> default, so this is not a panacea.


As we discussed off-line, can you add an explanation about why 5 minutes works 
when FreeBSD/OS X have much larger timeouts?  Otherwise, looks good.

Thanks,

--Justin


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