On 07/13/2011 03:34 PM, brian irvin wrote:
We are using bnx2 driver. We are getting outages when arp table fills up and unless we flush the table, network connectivity is an issue.
more ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=500 primary=eth4"
Thanks
Brian
Assuming that you obviously update the system via RHN to have the latest
and the greatest, I would check to see if your switch ports are
configured in some sort of peculiar mode. If the rest of the boxes you
run has a smaller arp table, then the switch port might be throwing a
lot of traffic because, for example, it might be in SPAN mode, throwing
all the traffic on the VLAN, when it does not need to be.
Failing that, if you have a large VLAN and more than a 1000 clients on
it, depending on the class of your subnet, you can turn into the
following ARP/IP kernel parameter:
sysctl -a | grep -i thresh
Have a look at this document:
http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs21/a.flargeclusters.shtml
which suggests amongst other things ARP flush parameters to put under
/etc/sysctl.conf
/etc/sysctl.conf
# Don't allow the arp table to become bigger than this
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3 = 4096
# Tell the gc when to become aggressive with arp table cleaning.
# Adjust this based on size of the LAN.
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2 = 2048
# Adjust where the gc will leave arp table alone
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1 = 1024
# Adjust to arp table gc to clean-up more often
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_interval = 3600
# ARP cache entry timeout
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_stale_time = 3600
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