Re: Provider standard ARP Timeout?

On (2012-08-10 10:23 -0400), Jay Nakamura wrote:

Cisco default ARP timeout is 4 hours. Do anyone change that to something shorter in a provider environment for customer with Ethernet connectivity? What is a good value to set it to?

Maximum value should be your L2 MAC timeout. Most other vendors use low limits these days (linux, junos come to mind). So 300s max really. If ARP timeout is higher than L2 MAC timeout you can cause loops in otherwise correctly configured network. -- ++ytti