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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:49:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Scott Johnson <sjohn@airlinksys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   arp timeout
Message-ID:  <200104091549.LAA77945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010407114436.B1056@ns2.airlinksys.com>
References:  <20010407114436.B1056@ns2.airlinksys.com>

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<<On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:44:37 -0500, Scott Johnson <sjohn@airlinksys.com> said:

> Is the timeout on the arp cache restarted on each communication with the
> device? Or is the cache refreshed every timeout interval whether there has
> been activity at all?

No.

The timeout on the ARP cache is restarted every time an ARP reply for
its IP address is heard.

-GAWollman


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