On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:00:48PM +0200, Snyder, Ryan wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if any one can help me, I received this email address from
> Alan Cox.
>
> I am running CheckPoint Firewall under Linux 2.2.19. The Firewall is
> working fine,
> but on the interface that is connected to the Internet via a Cisco router
> has over 950
> entries in the arp cache. I understand this is normal, but since there is
> only one
> route to the Internet, is there a way to not have Linux to an arp cache
> lookup, or even
> a setting to make the cache size much bigger?
>
> I have looked into running arpd, but I am kinda fuzzy about running daemon
> stuff in
> userspace; espically on a firewall.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
You can tune the ARP cache size using the appropiate sysctls. See
arp(7) for more information.
-Andi
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