From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 28 15:10:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kesuki.dyndns.org (kesuki.farcpe.cableone.net [24.116.40.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBAB37B405 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kesu@kesuki.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (kesu@localhost) by kesuki.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6SMNc010381 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:23:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kesu@kesuki.dyndns.org) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:23:37 -0500 (CDT) From: kesu To: Subject: Need help limiting bandwith ARP uses over cable modem. Message-ID: <20010728171513.Q10366-100000@kesuki.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well I have a very low bandwith cap on my cable modem, and as soon as the modem reconnects i am flooded with about 7,000 ARP requests. (in the first 3 minutes) this can literally cause any number of tcp packets to get dropped. since arp tends to be more forgiving than tcp (especially for realtime situations) I would like to cap the ARP protocols bandwith usage to 64 Killobits per second in both directions over the cable modems interface. I have ipfw configured and in the kernel, and anyone who could tell me how to limit the bandwith of ARP would really help me get a more consistant experience from my cable modem. --- 12:00PM up 21 days, 11:49, 11 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Fortune of the day: "I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message