In article <3A413B05.9B9EF7EC@vill.com> you wrote: > ARP cache entries for which there has been no traffic timeout in > several minutes. However, I have not found any documentation for Linux > (e.g. arp(7)) on > what the value for this timeout is and whether it is configurable. All the > timeouts in the documentation appear to be in the region of seconds rather > than minutes that I'd expect in this case > Can somebody tell me how to determine this timeout. # egrep . /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/* /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/anycast_delay:100 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/app_solicit:0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/base_reachable_time:30 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/delay_first_probe_time:5 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/gc_stale_time:60 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/locktime:100 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/mcast_solicit:3 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/proxy_delay:80 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/proxy_qlen:64 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time:100 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/ucast_solicit:3 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/unres_qlen:3 Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org