Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:48:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Luigi Genoni <> | Subject | Re: arpd not working in 2.4.17 or 2.5.1 |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > But arp>1024 is Very Important, else linux will never be able to talk to more > > than 1024 clients ! > > > > Linux is my favourite and I wonder if this limit will kill linux for the race > > with Solaris/M$ server market. So pls save me :) and help neighour.c/network > > layer in new kernel. > > ARP applies for local links only. So you need a network you are actively > talking to 1024 different hosts directly on. Furthermore all the > config items should now be soft anyway. Want more, enable more.
To have this kind of network is not impossible at all, I received mail from people at intel who are dealing with around 5000 arp (they say). In this situation with arpd there was no sensible performance loss, right now there is a big slowdown.
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