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"
