IP Routing Features
Configuring IP Parameters for Routing Switches
| routers, including ProCurve routing switches, can be configured to reply |
| to ARP requests from one network on behalf of devices on another |
| network. See “Enabling Proxy ARP” below. |
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N o t e | If the routing switch receives an ARP request packet that it is unable to deliver |
| to the final destination because of the ARP timeout and no ARP response is |
| received (the routing switch knows of no route to the destination address), |
| the routing switch sends an ICMP Host Unreachable message to the source. |
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Changing the ARP Aging Period
The ARP age is the amount of time the switch keeps a MAC address learned through ARP in the ARP cache. The switch resets the timer to zero each time the ARP entry is refreshed and removes the entry if the timer reaches the ARP age.
You can increase the ARP age timeout maximum to 24 hours or more with this command:
Syntax: [no] ip
Allows the ARP age to be set from 1 to 1440 minutes (24 hours). If the option “infinite” is configured, the internal ARP age timeout is set to 99,999,999 seconds (approximately 3.2 years). An
Default: 20 minutes.
ProCurve(config)# ip
To view the value of Arp Age timer, enter the show ip command as shown in Figure