From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 23:00:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730E91065671 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.vega.ru (infra.dev.vega.ru [90.156.167.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2496D8FC25 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:00:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [87.242.97.68] (port=61742 helo=edoofus.dev.vega.ru) by mail.vega.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KDoPL-000FfK-Kh; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:33:07 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:32:47 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Paul Message-ID: <20080701223247.GB8518@edoofus.dev.vega.ru> References: <486A956D.3030001@gtcomm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486A956D.3030001@gtcomm.net> Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Maximum ARP Entries X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:00:19 -0000 On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:37:01PM -0400, Paul wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of ARP entries/ > adjacencies that FBSD can handle before recycling? > In FreeBSD, ARP still uses routing table as its storage, and as such limits on the routing table memory applies, and the latter currently has no limit. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer