---- Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Thomas Dukes wrote:
*From:* centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *chloe K *Sent:* Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:10 PM *To:* CentOS mailing list *Subject:* Re: [CentOS] Neighbour table overflow
what is your netmask?
eth0 = 255.255.240.0
Why do you have such a large subnet? There are a number of potential performance problems with such a setup. I typically only see this in large, bridged wireless campuses. Little justification for it in a wired network. (I do have lots of networking experience and knowledge, having consulted with a number of large deployments).
Even with a large subnet, you should not be arping everywhere. Either two things are happening:
Your system is recording every ARP request it sees ('Who has IP x.x.x.x') to avoid arping later. Bad behaviour (IMNSHO), given your network.
Your system is ARPing for every IP address in the subnet to learn all of its neighbors. WHy would it do that? Unless you have some snooping software running on your system.
Hi Robert,
I did not set this value. Something did but not me.
I am on a roadrunner connection with a dynamic ip. What do you suggest I change it to?
Thnaks!!