Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:48:42 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: Arp expire/timeout 2.1.132/2.2pre1 |
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Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 07:13:56PM +0300, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > > > Well, you could increase /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/base_reachable_time > > from 30sec to something about twice longer, than tftp time > > and, probably, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/delay_first_probe_time > > to tftp time. > > What is not clear: 15sec should be enough to load image. > > It is definitly not - tftp is 512 byte packets and with > a 1.4MB kernel and a slow decstation :) > Not all systems are fast PCs sitting on fast networks, either. We have one embedded system here (admittedly not Linux-based) which takes about a minute to load the main OS image over 10Mbps ethernet.
I would think a longer default timeout value would cause fewer problems than a very short one.
Charles Cazabon -- ---------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <charlesc-linux@qcc.sk.ca> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ----------------------------------------------------
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