| Hi Nancy -
|Would someone be so kind as to verify whether the kernel values for
|arpkillc, arpkilli, arprefresh, and arphold are used to modify the atmarp
|cache as well, or is there another way to, say, decrease the value of the
|timeout for the atmarp cache entries? The question pertains to Digital
|UNIX 3.2g and 4.0*.
My expertice is not really in this area of ATM, but let me try to
answer.
If I understand things correctly, there is no such thing as an 'atmarp'
cache. arp cache management is a central piece of IP and therefore those
values apply. In the event that the arp cache manager requests that a
particular IP address be resolved, the ifnet device with the matching
netmask will be called to "resolve" the request. Different ifnet devices
implement this differently. In the case of ATM CLIP, such a request is
translated into query to the ATMarp server which may or may not be local
to the host. In fact, it would likely be running on the ATM switch. The timers
for managing the ATMarp server repository would be outlined in RFC1577, if
anywhere.
In the case of IP over LANE, its basically like Ethernet. LANE itself knows
nothing of IP. As far as I understand, those values should apply there too.
Cheers,
>Per
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