See Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and search for gc_stale_time. The files in /proc you are interested in twiddling are in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0 or whatever ethernet adapters you are interested in munging about with. cheers -mark Mariano Korman <mkorman@mat.upc.es> [01/05/11 16:03]: > > Hi guys. > > I want to keep my ARP caches warm for, say, 2 minutes. So, that ARP > entries do not expire until after 2 mins. How can I do that? writing > something on /proc/net? > > And can I keep them warm for 1 hour.? > > TIA, > > Mariano Korman > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org