[clug] "Neighbour table overflow"

[Steven Hanley]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:12:33PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
> At 4:15 PM +1100 03/10/28, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> >Kim Holburn said:
> >> At 1:58 PM +1100 03/10/28, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> >>>Umm.. you can increase the size of the table via a /proc entry.
> >>
> >> Which one?
> >
> >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3
> >
> 
> Somewhere in the net I found this:
> 
> echo 1024 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh1
> echo 2048 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh2
> echo 4096 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3
> 
> Now do I just need to do that once?  Do I need to reboot/restart interfaces after? 

just once to set them.

> On reboot do I need to remind my system of this?  Where would be the optimal place (debian system)?

yes on reboot they need to be reset, on a debian system the best place to do
this is in /etc/sysctl.conf

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