RE: Help with FreeBSD Bridged Firewall

From: Don Bowman (don_at_sandvine.com)
Date: 07/30/03

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    To: 'William Knechtel' <webmaster@endikos.com>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:24:04 -0400

    > From: William Knechtel [mailto:webmaster@endikos.com]
    > Yeah, the arp cache is the problem, thanks for nailing that
    > one for me.
    > However, the ipfw rule you supplied doesn't seem to want to work for
    > me... I think for the time being I'll just run a cron job every 15
    > minutes or so that clears the arp cache completely. Thanks again for
    > your help!! I really appreciate it!

    you can, with sysctl, change the arp timeout period.
    sysctl net.link.ether to see all of them.
    net.link.ether.inet.prune_intvl/net.link.ether.inet.max_age
    changes the arp cache age time.
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