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Date:      Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:18:26 -0700
From:      Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>
To:        Colin Farley <Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, matt@fruitsalad.org
Subject:   Re: Gratuitous ARP
Message-ID:  <432F1D12.807@kjsl.com>
In-Reply-To: <OFD295A5D9.11B50917-ON86257081.006922F9-86257081.006922FB@ecarecenters.com>
References:  <OFD295A5D9.11B50917-ON86257081.006922F9-86257081.006922FB@ecarecenters.com>

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Colin Farley wrote:
>    Hi Matt,
> 
> 
> 
>    Thanks for your reply.  =he model of the Cisco router is 2811.  Do
>    you think that lowering the=imeout to 5 seconds would be ok? I have
>    seen that Cisco does not recommen= a timeout below 30 seconds but
>    after reading your reply and seeing as the=e are only a couple dozen
>    hosts on this subnet I would think that thi= would be fine.  Please
>    confirm. Thanks again.

It should be fine, but some experimentation will be in order, as the 
amount of traffic each node generates could be a factor as well.

Set it to what you want, then keep an eye on CPU utilization on the 
router. The command you want is:

show proc cpu

-jav



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